African Affairs
African Affairs
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| Discipline | African studies, Political science, International Relations, Sociology |
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| Language | English |
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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 |
Impact factor (2016) | 2.577 |
| Standard abbreviations Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) · ISO 4 (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
ISO 4 | Afr. Aff. |
| Indexing MIAR | |
| 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.
Contents
1 History
2 Abstracting and indexing
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History[edit]
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.[citation needed]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- List of political science journals
- William Hugh Beeton
References[edit]
^ http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/afrafj/authorprize.html
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Royal African Society
Journal of the African Society, 1901- (some fulltext) via HathiTrust
Categories:
- African studies journals
- Publications established in 1901
- Oxford University Press academic journals
- Quarterly journals
- English-language journals
- Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies
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