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Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa · Senegal

ISSN0850-3907

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.204

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.293

Total Worksi

726

Total Citationsi

5,342

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.68

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement is a bilingual social science journal focused on issues central to societal development in Africa. It serves as a forum for exchanging ideas among African scholars across various disciplines and intellectual perspectives. The journal also welcomes contributions on Africa from other scholars or comparative analyses of developing world issues.

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General Information

Country / RegionSenegal

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 31 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications726

Publisher OrgCouncil for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0850-3907

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

195

2017

2018

2020

118

2021

103

2022

2023

2024

2025

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Political Science and International RelationsQ3

Sociology and Political ScienceQ3

DevelopmentQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceDevelopmentPolitical Science and International Relations

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Agriculture and Rural Development ResearchAfrican history and culture studiesMulticulturalism, Politics, Migration, GenderAfrican Studies and EthnographyInternational Development and Aid

Frequently asked questions about Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement

Is Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement?

Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.204.

Is Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement is indexed in Scopus.