About this journal
Aims and scope
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation & Development (AJSTID) is a multidiscipline journal covering economics, science, engineering, and technology, but with the core focus on economics of innovation and development. AJSTID provides an important outlet to research on process and impact of science, technology and innovation at two levels: the narrow objective of achieving industrial growth, and the broader objective of achieving socio-economic development, particularly in Africa and other developing economies.
AJSTID aims to undertake and promote the scientific research in a broader sense. It provides an outlet for research works by scientists, academia, engineers, practitioners, doctoral scholars and post graduate students concerned with the impact of science, technology and innovation process on industrial, economic, and social development. AJSTID brings Publishing to the doorstep of every emerging researcher in Africa and other developing countries.
All submitted manuscripts should be original and previously unpublished and are subject to initial appraisal. If found suitable for further consideration, manuscripts will be sent for peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. AJSTID follows the double anonymized review system. However, peer review is single anonymized in some exceptional cases, such as highly specialized scientific papers.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 71K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 1.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.669 (2023) SNIP
- 0.414 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 25 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 144 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 49 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 15% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- 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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors in Chief
Prof. Mammo Muchie
DST/NRF SARChI South African Research Professor on Innovation and Development, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.
Chairman of the Network of Ethiopian Scholars ( www.nesglobal.org); Senior Research Associate TMDC, Oxford University, UK;
Adjunct Professor, UoG, Arsi University and ASTU, Ethiopia
Email: [email protected]
http://www.sarchi-steid.org.za/sarchi_j3/ & http://www.africatalenthub.org/
Prof. Angathevar Baskaran
Department of Development Studies, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Senior Research Associate Fellow of SARChI (Innovation & Development), Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Associate Editors
Dr. John Berchmans Byamukama
Sol Plaatje University, School of Economic and Management Sciences, Kimberley, South Africa
Prof V G R Chandran Govindaraju
Department of Development Studies, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Dr. Orthodoxia Kyriacou
Associate Professor, Department of Education, Middlesex University, London
Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri
Associate Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, University of Calcutta, India
Dr. Nejla Yacoub
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management of Mahdia, University of Monastir, Tunisia
Dr Charity Osei-Amponsah
International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Accra, Ghana
Dr Rajesh Gopalakrishnan Nair
CEO, Council for Nature Conservation and Environmental Protection, CONCEPT-INDIA; Scientific Board, AfricaLics; Scientific Board, Centre for Research in Innovation Studies - CRIS-UK
Email: [email protected]
Dr Chris Schachtebeck
Department of Business Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Prof. Abejide Ade-Ibijola
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Information Systems, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Swapan Kumar Patra
Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India
Dr. Roberto Mavilia
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain & KITeS, Bocconi University, Italy
Prof. Richard Shambare
Department of Business Management, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa
Dr Ignace Kamga Tchwaket
Director of Applied Research and Cooperation at Sub-regional Institute of Applied Economics and Statistics (ISSEA), Cameroon
Dr Nnamdi Nwulu
Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and SARChI Senior Research Associate, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Dr Priviledge Cheteni
University of Fort Hare, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Dr. Oluseye Jegede
African Research Fellow, Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, HSRC, South Africa & Research Fellow, African Institute for Science Policy and Innovation, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Prof. Machate Machate
Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria-West, Gauteng, South Africa
Dr. Munyaradzi Mujuru
Senior Lecturer & Department Research Chairperson, Department of Water & Sanitation, Faculty of Science & Agriculture, University of Limpopo, South Africa
Dr Swati Mehta
Punjab School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Sol Plaatje University, South Africa
Editorial Advisors
Prof. Mingfeng Tang, School of Business administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
Dr. Olugbenga Adesida, Director, Africa Innovation Summit, Cape Verde
Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina, Executive Manager, South African Cities Network; Research Fellow, SARChI, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Dr. Yan Hui, Assistant Professor, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Dr. Mulatu Zerihun, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Zeleke Worku, Tshwane Business School, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Aggrey Ambali, Director, STI Division, NEPAD, Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Lourens Van Staden, Vice Chancellor, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Prof. Ben van Wyk, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
Prof. Xiaolan Fu, Director of TMDC, Oxford University, UK
Prof. Viness Pillay, DST/NRF Research Professor, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Prof. Lakhwinder Singh, Professor, Department of Economics, Punjabi University; Patiala, India
Prof. Umezuruike Linus Opara, DST/NRF research Chair and Distinguished Professor, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Prof. Can Huang, National Institute for Innovation Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University, China
Prof. Franco Malerba, KITeS, Universita Bocconi, Italy
Prof. Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Alborg University, Denmark
Prof. Luc Soete, United Nations University, Netherlands
Prof. Yasunori Baba, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Saradindu Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Prof. Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Prof. K. Joseph, Centre for Development Studies, India
Prof. Martin Bell, SPRU, University of Sussex, UK
Prof. Richard Nelson, Columbia University, New York, USA
Prof. Dr. Ravinder Rena, NWU Business School, North-West University - Mahikeng Campus, South Africa
Book Review Editors
Coordinator:
Dr. Fayaz Sheikh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Ju Liu, Department of Urban Studies, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmo University, Sweden
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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