ISI Results
African Affairs is the top-ranked Area Studies journal as measured by impact factor. African Affairs' impact factor is 1.490 according to the 2010 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2011), placing it first overall within Area Studies and above all other African studies journals. For the second time, African Affairs has also been ranked in the field of political science, placing it in the top 15% with a ranking of 20 out of 139 journals.
The impact factor is a ratio of citations to articles published, and it shows the average number of times recent articles in African Affairs were cited within the relevant year (2010).
To celebrate the impact factor, we are granting free access to six highly-cited articles from the journal. These articles are just a sample of the impressive collection of research published in the journal.
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- Peasant grievance and insurgency in Sierra Leone: Judicial serfdom as a driver of conflict
Esther Mokuwa, Maarten Voors, Erwin Bulte, and Paul Richards
Volume 110, Number 440
July 2011 - Constructing the truth, dealing with dissent, domesticating the world: Governance in post-genocide Rwanda
Filip Reyntjens
Volume 110, Number 438
January 2011 - ‘Change for a Better Ghana’: Party Competition, Institutionalization and Alternation in Ghana’s 2008 Elections
Lindsay Whitfield
Volume 108, Number 433
October 2009 - Peace and Power Sharing in Africa: A Not So Obvious Relationship
Andreas Mehler
Volume 108, Number 432
July 2009 - Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya
Daniel Branch and Nic Cheeseman
Volume 108, Number 430
January 2009 - Jacob Zuma, The Social Body and the Unruly Power of Song
Liz Gunner
Volume 108, Number 430
January 2009
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