African Affairs

African Affairs  
Discipline African studies, Political science, International Relations, Sociology
Language English
Publication details
Former name(s)
 Journal of the African Society
Journal of the Royal African Society
Publication history
 1901–present
Publisher
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
Frequency Quarterly
2.577
Standard abbreviations
Afr. Aff.
Indexing
ISSN 0001-9909 (print)
1468-2621 (web)
LCCN 2002-227380
JSTOR 00019909
OCLC no. 51206437
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African Affairs is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press on behalf of the London-based Royal African Society. The journal covers any Africa-related topic: political, social, economic, environmental and historical. Each issue also includes a section of book reviews.

It is the No 1. ranked journal in African Studies and the No 1. ranked journal in Area Studies. The journal is also ranked within political science.

It was established as the Journal of the African Society in 1901, and was published as the Journal of the Royal African Society from 1936 until it obtained its current name in 1944.

History

The journal was established in 1901 as the Journal of the African Society and was published as the Journal of the Royal African Society ( ISSN 0368-4016) from 1936 to 1944. In 1944, the journal obtained its current name.

The journal offers an African Author prize, which is awarded for the best article published in the journal by an author based in an African institution, or an African Ph.D student based in an overseas university.[1]

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.904, ranking it 23rd out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science".[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/afrafj/authorprize.html
  2. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.
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