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African Security
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, United Kingdom
African Security is an academic journal published by ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD (United Kingdom). Identifiers: ISSN 1939-2206, eISSN 1939-2214. Indexed in SCIE, SCOPUS. Metrics: JIF 1.3, CiteScore 3.8, SJR 0.435, SNIP 6.86. Subject areas: POLITICAL SCIENCE. tlooto lists 329 papers from this journal.
CiteScore
3.80
Scopus citation metric
SJR
0.435
SCImago rank
SNIP
6.86
Source normalized impact
Percentage rank
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JIF percentile rank
Journal profile
- ISSN
- 1939-2206
- eISSN
- 1939-2214
- Abbreviation
- AFR SECUR
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Country
- United Kingdom
Web of Science categories
No Web of Science category data available.
Scopus ASJC categories
3311 Safety Research3320 Political Science and International Relations
Papers in this journal
Recent papers
- Unmasking and Mapping Kidnap for Ransom (K4R) in Nigeria’s Crime-Terror Landscape Using Behaviour Sequence Analysis
2026
- Seeing Security Differently: African Perspectives and the Politics of Security Knowledge
2026
- Cattle, Violence, and War Economy: A Value-Chain Analysis in the Sahel Region
2026 · 1 citations
- The Politics of Security Sector Reform: American and British Involvement in Military Reform in Post-Bashir Sudan
2026
- Meta-Colonial Lingers in African and International Security Politics: Societal (In)Security in Sudan
2026 · 1 citations
Most cited papers
- Governing “Ungoverned Spaces” in the Foliage of Conspiracy: Toward (Re)ordering Terrorism, from Boko Haram Insurgency, Fulani Militancy to Banditry in Northern Nigeria
2020 · 119 citations
- Economic Community of West African States on the Ground: Comparing Peacekeeping in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, and Côte D'Ivoire
2009 · 80 citations
- Fulani-Dogon Killings in Mali: Farmer-Herder Conflicts as Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
2021 · 77 citations
- State, Secession, and Jihad: The Micropolitical Economy of Conflict in Northern Mali
2015 · 73 citations
- Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria: Between Islamic Fundamentalism, Politics, and Poverty
2015 · 72 citations