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AFRICAN STUDIES
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, United Kingdom
AFRICAN STUDIES is an academic journal published by ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (United Kingdom). Identifiers: ISSN 0002-0184, eISSN 1469-2872. Indexed in SSCI, SCOPUS. Metrics: JIF 0.9, CiteScore 2.3, SJR 0.310, SNIP 1.26. Subject areas: AREA STUDIES. tlooto lists 1,502 papers from this journal.
CiteScore
2.30
Scopus citation metric
SJR
0.310
SCImago rank
SNIP
1.26
Source normalized impact
Percentage rank
-
JIF percentile rank
Journal profile
- ISSN
- 0002-0184
- eISSN
- 1469-2872
- Abbreviation
- AFR STUD-UK
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Country
- United Kingdom
Web of Science categories
SSCIAREA STUDIES
Scopus ASJC categories
1202 History3312 Sociology and Political Science3314 Anthropology3316 Cultural Studies3320 Political Science and International Relations
Keywords
Area Studies
Papers in this journal
Recent papers
- Narrative Disruption and the Reimagining of African Identity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death
2026
- New Biographies of Citizenship: Youth Civic Engagement in Africa
2026
- Of Rape, Black Women and ‘Whitened’ Pudenda: Psychosexual Identity in the Ghanaian Neo-Slave Narrative
2026
- The Postcolonial Voice in Algerian Fiction: Silent Struggles and Spoken Frictions
2026
- American Democracy Promotion in Nigeria: Strategic Approaches and the Centrality of Political Education
2026
Most cited papers
- The Materiality of Everyday Sex: Thinking beyond 'prostitution'
2002 · 635 citations
- Politicised Ethnicity, Competitive Politics and Conflict in Kenya: A Historical Perspective
2002 · 231 citations
- Sexual Socialisation in South Africa: A Historical Perspective
2002 · 199 citations
- Can Moral Ethnicity Trump Political Tribalism? The Struggle for Land and Nation in Kenya
2002 · 174 citations
- On the fault-line: The politics of AIDS policy in contemporary South Africa
2002 · 164 citations