Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Overview

Impact Factor

NA

H Index

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Impact Factor

0.947

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom
Journal ISSN: 02589001, 14699397
Publisher: Routledge
History: 1981-1984, 1986-2021
Journal Hompage: Link
How to Get Published:
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Research Categories

Scope/Description:

Journal of Contemporary African Studies JCASis an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote an Africancentred scholarly understanding of societies on the continent and their location within the global political economy.Its scope extends across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines with topics covered including but not limited to culture development education environmental questions gender government labour land leadership political economy politics social movements sociology of knowledge and welfare.JCAS welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature with a specific focus on debates and developments in Africa as part of a broader aim of contributing towards the development of viable communities of African scholarship.The journal publishes original research articles book reviews notes from the field debates research reports and occasional review essays. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics. JCAS is published four times a year in January April July and October.

II. Science Citation Report (SCR)



Journal of Contemporary African Studies
SCR Impact Factor

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
SCR Journal Ranking

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
SCImago SJR Rank

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from.

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Scopus 2-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Scopus 3-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 4-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Impact Factor History

2-year 3-year 4-year
  • 2023 Impact Factor
    0.888 1.479 1.441
  • 2022 Impact Factor
    0.906 0.846 0.925
  • 2021 Impact Factor
    0.947 0.982 1.273
  • 2020 Impact Factor
    0.556 1.011 0.922
  • 2019 Impact Factor
    0.868 0.745 0.887
  • 2018 Impact Factor
    0.667 0.711 0.869
  • 2017 Impact Factor
    0.492 0.622 0.772
  • 2016 Impact Factor
    0.781 1.146 1.118
  • 2015 Impact Factor
    0.69 1.052 1.213
  • 2014 Impact Factor
    0.984 NA NA
  • 2013 Impact Factor
    1.261 NA NA
  • 2012 Impact Factor
    0.614 NA NA
  • 2011 Impact Factor
    0.849 NA NA
  • 2010 Impact Factor
    0.776 NA NA
  • 2009 Impact Factor
    0.561 NA NA
  • 2008 Impact Factor
    0.579 NA NA
  • 2007 Impact Factor
    0.649 NA NA
  • 2006 Impact Factor
    0.371 NA NA
  • 2005 Impact Factor
    0.7 NA NA
  • 2004 Impact Factor
    0.353 NA NA
  • 2003 Impact Factor
    1.192 NA NA
  • 2002 Impact Factor
    0.286 NA NA
  • 2001 Impact Factor
    0.6 NA NA
  • 2000 Impact Factor
    0.68 NA NA
Note: impact factor data for reference only

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Impact Factor

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III. Other Science Influence Indicators

Any impact factor or scientometric indicator alone will not give you the full picture of a science journal. There are also other factors such as H-Index, Self-Citation Ratio, SJR, SNIP, etc. Researchers may also consider the practical aspect of a journal such as publication fees, acceptance rate, review speed. (Learn More)

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H-Index

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications

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H-Index History

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