African Identities provides a critical forum for the examination of African and diasporic expressions, representations and identities. The aim of this journal is to open up various horizons in the field: to encourage the development of theory and practice in a wider spread of disciplinary approaches; to promote conceptual innovation and to provide a venue for the entry of new perspectives. The journal focuses on the myriad of ways in which cultural production creates zones of profound expressive possibilities by continually generating texts and contexts of reflexive import. African Identities accepts the following types of article: original articles, book reviews.
With an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalisation, "otherness" and difference, the journal explores how African identities, either by force of expediency or contingency, create layered terrains of (ex)change, decentre dominant meanings, paradigms and certainties. Important questions about the meanings of Africanness, "post-coloniality" and syncreticisms, for example, provide conceptual frameworks within which to situate the critical analysis of African cultural production and the axis of engagement with popular culture.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous double anonymous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
65K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.869 (2023) SNIP
0.245 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
134 days avg. from submission to first
decision
200 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
12 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
35% acceptance rate
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
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Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
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journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
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Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editor: Pal Ahluwalia -The University of the South Pacific, Fiji ( [email protected])
Editorial office: Poonam Pritika Devi -TheUniversity of the South Pacific, Fiji ( [email protected])
International Editorial Board: Karen Appelbaum - Independent Researcher, South Africa Bill Ashcroft - University of New South Wales, Australia Bibi Bakare-Weate - Independent Researcher, Nigeria Louise Bethlehem- Hebrew University, Israel Hazel Carby - Yale University, USA Phil Clark - SOAS, UK Fassil Demissie - DePaul University, USA Gaurav Desai -University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, USA Ann duCille - Wesleyan University, USA Pumla-Dineo Gqola - University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Gareth Griffiths - University of Western Australia, Australia John Higginson - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Paulin Hountondji - Ministry of Education, Benin Sandra Jackson - DePaul University, USA Abdul Janmohamed - University of California, Berkeley, USA Carlos Lopes - UN Institute for Training and Research, Geneva, Switzerland Sheira S. Malik -DePaul University, USA Achille Mbembe - University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Utz McKnight- University of Alabama, USA Christopher L. Miller - Yale University, USA Nthabiseng Motsemme - University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Micere M.G. Mugo - Syracuse University, USA Obioma Nnaemeka - Indiana University, USA Kenneth Parker - Independent Researcher, UK Jeff Steeves - University of Saskatchewan, Canada Keyan Tomaselli - University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Bahru Zewde - (Emeritus), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Updated 30-03-2021
Abstracting and indexing
African Identities is abstracted in British Humanities Index, International Index to Black Periodicals, OCLC and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. African Identities is indexed in Scopus.
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