verified SJR 0,2 · Q1 • database Scopus / SJR & Web of Science indexed

United States · Indiana University Press

workspace_premium Q1 — Literature and Literary Theory lock Subscription

Research in African Literatures

Research in African Literatures is a journal indexed in SJR in Literature and Literary Theory with an H index of 27. It has a price of 2395 €. It has an SJR impact factor of 0,2 and it has a best quartile of Q1. It has an SJR impact factor of 0,2.

ISSN: 0034-5210

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Category: Literature and Literary Theory

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

open_in_new Portal NPD menu_book Guidelines NPD

schedule CountryOfPapers database fields

SJR Impact Factor trending_up

0,2 Q1

H-index 27

Acceptance rate pie_chart

41%

Source Acceptance_Rate

Time to publication hourglass_top

NPD

Field NPD

Publication cost (APC) payments

2.395 € Subscription

Non-OA path 0 €

Metrics

Scimago and CountryOfPapers database fields

Scopus / SJR Web of Science

SJR Impact

0,2

H-index

Docs (year)

Docs 3y

Total refs

1013

Cites 3y

Citable 3y

Cites/Doc 2y

0.25

Ref/Doc

36.18

Immediate OA

2395 €

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

shield Researcher voice

Name good journals. Call out predatory ones.

Share what peer review, fees, and timelines were really like. Praise fair editors. Flag APC traps, fake metrics, or spam solicitations — with facts from your submission.

Fair & fast peer review Clear APC / no surprise fees Suspected predatory Fake impact claims

rate_review Write an honest review

Researcher reviews

sentiment_dissatisfied No reviews yet — be the first to share an honest experience.

Publication speed *

Review quality *

Edition and editorial team *

Institutional email or ORCID * * Only to validate authenticity — identity is not shown publicly.

Best articles by citations

Seed Time

Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsromane, by Walter P. Collins, III

The Geography of Identity in Suzanne Cesaire's "Le grand camouflage"

Writing Madness: Borderlines of the Body in African Literature, by Flora Veit-Wild

Women in Taarab, by Mohamed El-Mohammady Rizk

The Power of the Word/La puissance du verbe, ed. T. J. Cribb

The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe, by Ranka Primorac

The Merits and Predicaments of Opacity: Poetic Strategies of Evasion and Resistance

Theatre and Environmental Education in Cameroon, by John Taku Taken, andWomen in Theatre for Development in Cameroon: Participation, Contributions and Limitations, by Emelda Ngufor Samba

Staking Claims: Theorizing Female Agency and Empowerment through Black Women's Literary Writings

Spero's "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay": Maryse Conde'sThe Last of the African Kings

Selling (out) on the Black Market: Black Bazar's Literary Sape

SHOW MORE ARTICLES

Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi, ed. Lindy Stiebel and Liz Gunner

Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History, by David Attwell

Publishing and Hypermedia

Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka, by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska

Perspectives critiques: L'oeuvre d'Hedi Bouraoui, ed. Elisabeth Sabiston and Suzanne Crosta

Parades postcoloniales: la fabrication des identites dans le roman congolais, by Lydie Moudileno

Ordinary Cities between Modernity and Development, by Jennifer Robinson

Ora na-azu nwa:The Figure of the Child in Third-Generation Nigerian Novels

Of Minstrels and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing, ed. Christine Matzke, Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, and Geoffrey V. Davis

Of Female Husbands and Boarding School Girls: Gender Bending in Unoma Azuah's Fiction

Nyarloka's Gift: The Writing of Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, by Roger Kurtz

Metonymic Eruptions: Igbo Novelists, the Narrative of the Nation, and New Developments in the Contemporary Nigerian Novel

FAQs

Research in African Literatures has an SJR of 0,2 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is 2395 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Research in African Literatures is 41%.

Research in African Literatures

Metrics

Name good journals. Call out predatory ones.

Researcher reviews

Best articles by citations

FAQs

What is the SJR of Research in African Literatures?

What is the APC / publication cost?

What is the acceptance rate?