African Affairs

3.5k papers and 51.8k indexed citations

About

The 3.5k papers published in African Affairs in the last decades have received a total of 51.8k indexed citations. Papers published in African Affairs usually cover Sociology and Political Science (1.3k papers), Anthropology (1.1k papers) and Political Science and International Relations (685 papers) specifically the topics of African history and culture studies (942 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (568 papers) and African history and culture analysis (369 papers). The most active scholars publishing in African Affairs are Ian Blore, Lyndon Harries, Lucy Mair, Filip Reyntjens, A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene, Alex de Waal, Peter Woodward, Bruce J. Berman, Mary Tiffen and Joan M. Kenworthy.

In The Last Decade

African Affairs

2.4k papers receiving 33.2k citations

Peers

African Affairs
Comparison fields: 5 of 212
  • Sociology and Political Science 28.0k
  • Political Science and International Relations 12.6k
  • Anthropology 10.7k
  • Development 5.7k
  • Economics and Econometrics 3.7k
Replace The International Journal of African Historical Studies with:
The International Journal of African Historical Studies United States
Third World Quarterly United Kingdom
African Studies Review United States
Political Geography United Kingdom
Geographical Review United States
The Journal of Asian Studies United States
Pacific Affairs United States
Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines Canada
Geographical Journal United Kingdom
Antipode United States
The International Journal of African Historical Studies United States View profile →
Citations per field, relative to African Affairs
African Affairs · 1×
Citations per year, relative to African Affairs
African Affairs · 1×

Countries where authors publish in African Affairs

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research published in African Affairs. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in African Affairs with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites African Affairs more than expected).

Fields of papers published in African Affairs

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in African Affairs. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in African Affairs.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore journals with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026