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About the Journal

The Journal of African Economies is a vehicle to carry rigorous economic analysis, focused entirely on Africa, for Africans and anyone interested in the continent - be they consultants, policymakers, academics, traders, financiers, development agents or aid workers.

The Journal has an impact factor of 0.411 and is ranked 138/191 in the Economics category of the ISI Journal Citation Reports (2008).

Abstracting and Indexing Services

Journal of African Economies is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services:

CAB Abstracts and CAB Health
Geographical Abstracts (Geo Abstracts)
International Development Abstracts
ISI (Institute for Scientific Information): Social Science Citation Index, Research Alert,
Social Scisearch, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Science
Journal of Economic Literature/EconLit
RePEc (Research in Economic Papers)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)