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African Identities

Routledge · United States · Est. 2002

ISSN1472-5843

SJR Q1✓ Scopus / SJR

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 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.28

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.401

Total Worksi

1,163

Total Citationsi

6,936

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.55

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

African Identities provides a critical forum for the examination of African and diasporic expressions, representations, and identities. The journal explores how African identities create layered terrains of exchange, decentering dominant meanings, paradigms, and certainties, with an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalisation, "otherness", and difference.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2002

Annual Volume~ 134 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,163

Publisher OrgRoutledge

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

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?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1472-5843

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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

243

2019

809

2020

561

2021

198

2022

168

2023

133

179

2024

222

161

2025

192

2026

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.

Cultural StudiesQ1

AnthropologyQ2

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

AnthropologyCultural Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

African history and culture studiesAfrican studies and sociopolitical issuesPostcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesSouth African History and CultureAfrican history and culture analysisAfrican cultural and philosophical studiesPolitical Conflict and GovernanceAfrican Sexualities and LGBTQ+ IssuesAnthropological Studies and InsightsMultilingual Education and Policy

Frequently asked questions about African Identities

Is African Identities a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for African Identities: 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 African Identities?

African Identities is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.28.

Is African Identities indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

African Identities is indexed in Scopus.