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AFRICAN AFFAIRS
OXFORD UNIV PRESS, United Kingdom
AFRICAN AFFAIRS is an academic journal published by OXFORD UNIV PRESS (United Kingdom). Identifiers: ISSN 0001-9909, eISSN 1468-2621. Indexed in SSCI, SCOPUS. Metrics: JIF 2.2, CiteScore 4.3, SJR 0.862, SNIP 1.41. Subject areas: AREA STUDIES, POLITICAL SCIENCE.
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CiteScore
4.30
Scopus citation metric
SJR
0.862
SCImago rank
SNIP
1.41
Source normalized impact
Percentage rank
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JIF percentile rank
Journal profile
- ISSN
- 0001-9909
- eISSN
- 1468-2621
- Abbreviation
- AFR AFFAIRS
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
- Country
- United Kingdom
Web of Science categories
SSCIAREA STUDIES, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Scopus ASJC categories
3305 Geography3312 Sociology and Political Science
Keywords
Area Studies | Political Science
Papers in this journal
Recent papers
- Challengers in a Pandemic: Covid-19 States of Exception, Opposition Parties, and Outcomes in Southern Africa
2026
- The Paradox of Progress: Foreign Investments, Kinship, State-Building, and Conflict in Somaliland
2026 · 1 citations
- The Smartphone Connects in Violent Conflicts: An Ethnographic Study of Mali’s New War Ecology
2026
- Straight Outta Khartoum: Displaced Music Scenes and the Art of Politics in Sudan
2026
- Pedagogies of Digital Sovereignty: The Un/Making of Dependency Through Technical Education in Kenya
2026
Most cited papers
- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism
1997 · 2,284 citations
- Africa in the world: a history of extraversion
2000 · 893 citations
- The Oil Curse: How petroleum wealth shapes the development of nations
2013 · 683 citations
- ETHNICITY, PATRONAGE AND THE AFRICAN STATE: THE POLITICS OF UNCIVIL NATIONALISM
1998 · 581 citations
- Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age
1963 · 549 citations