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African Studies

African Studies is a journal indexed in SJR in Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science with an H index of 33. It has an SJR impact factor of 0,31 and it has a best quartile of Q1. It is published in English. It has an SJR impact factor of 0,31.

ISSN: 0002-0184

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Category: Anthropology

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

0,31 Q1

H-index 33

Acceptance rate pie_chart

36%

Source Acceptance_Rate

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NPD

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Publication cost (APC) payments

NPD Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

Metrics

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SJR Impact

0,31

H-index

Docs (year)

Docs 3y

Total refs

486

Cites 3y

Citable 3y

Cites/Doc 2y

0.95

Ref/Doc

48.6

Immediate OA

—

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Best articles by citations

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From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews

From Homeboy Networks to Broader Ethnic Affiliations: Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s

Feminist Empathy: Unsettling African Cultural Norms inThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Everyday policing and the occult: notions of witchcraft, crime and "the people"

Early African Urbanisation in Cape Town: Windermere in the 1940s and 1950s

David Webster: An Activist Anthropologist Twenty Years On1

Cross-border Languages in Southern African Economic and Political Integration

Credit Apartheid, Migrants, Mines and Money

Continuity and Change in Cape Town's Coon Carnival: The 1960s and 1970s

Competitive Labour: Divisions between Zambian and Zimbabwean Workers1

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Boundaries, Borders and Borderland Constructions: Chinese in Contemporary South Africa and the Region

Book reviews

Between the Push and the Shove: Everyday Struggles and the Re-making of Durban

Belletjiesbos, Draper Street and the Vlak: The Coloured Neighbourhoods of Claremont before Group Areas

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AIDS in Context

A Path to Integration: Senegalese Tijanis in Cape Town1

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African Studies has an SJR of 0,31 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is not available (NPD). Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for African Studies is 36%.

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