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JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, United Kingdom
JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES is an academic journal published by CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS (United Kingdom). Identifiers: ISSN 0022-278X, eISSN 1469-7777. Indexed in SSCI, SCOPUS. Metrics: JIF 1.1, CiteScore 1.9, SJR 0.477, SNIP 1.10. Subject areas: AREA STUDIES. tlooto lists 487 papers from this journal.
CiteScore
1.90
Scopus citation metric
SJR
0.477
SCImago rank
SNIP
1.10
Source normalized impact
Percentage rank
-
JIF percentile rank
Journal profile
- ISSN
- 0022-278X
- eISSN
- 1469-7777
- Abbreviation
- J MOD AFR STUD
- Publisher
- CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
- Country
- United Kingdom
Web of Science categories
SSCIAREA STUDIES
Scopus ASJC categories
3305 Geography3312 Sociology and Political Science
Keywords
Area Studies
Papers in this journal
Recent papers
- Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty by Delia Duong B. Wendel Duke University Press, 2025, 456 pp., $36.95 (Pb), DOI: 10.1215/9781478061311
2026 · 1 citations
- Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections, and Mobility in Central Africa by Gillian Mathys Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp. xviii + 378, £105.00 (Hb), ISBN: 9781009463058 doi: 10.1017/9781009463041
2026
- Review of: A.A. LaRocco, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana Ohio University Press, 2024, 408 pp., $34.95 (Pb.), ISBN: 9780896803343.
2026
- Examining convergence and divergence in the fighting patterns of Islamic State-aligned jihadist groups in the wider Sahel
2026
- Review of Daniel K. Thompson, Smugglers, Speculators, and the City in the Ethiopia-Somalia Borderlands, Cambridge University Press, 2025, €105.04 (Hb), ISBN: 9781009556286
2026
Most cited papers
- Presidentialism and clientelism in Africa's emerging party systems
2003 · 617 citations
- Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
2001 · 182 citations
- Guerrillas and Civilian Participation: The National Resistance Army in Uganda, 1981-86
2005 · 165 citations
- Inherited legal systems and effective rule of law: Africa and the colonial legacy
2001 · 153 citations
- Power-sharing in comparative perspective: the dynamics of ‘unity government’ in Kenya and Zimbabwe *
2010 · 135 citations