Africa Spectrum

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Basic Information
Publisher: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Founded in: 1966
Homepage: https://journals.sub.uni-hambu...
Twitter: @AfricaSpectrum
Association: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (@GIGA_Institute)
Category: Area Studies
Rank:
• 21 / 84 in Area Studies

Authors per paper:
     Average: 2
     Median: 1
References per paper:
     Average: 44
     Median: 40

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for Africa Spectrum:

  • 2021 Impact Factor: 1.818
  • 2020 Impact Factor: 0.900
  • 2019 Impact Factor: 0.903
  • 2018 Impact Factor: 0.833

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Latest papers
29
Jun
2022
Book Review: Undoing Coups. The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum
15
Jun
2022
Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum
14
Jun
2022
“Stop Calling Me a Youth!”: Understanding and Analysing Heterogeneity Among Ugandan Youth Agripreneurs Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum
19
May
2022
African Renaissance, Afrotopia, Afropolitanism, and Afrofuturism: Comparing Conceptual Properties of Four African Futures Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum
27
Apr
2022
The Quantification of Child Labour by Ghana’s Mass Media: A Missed Opportunity? Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum
19
Mar
2022
Book Review: Necropolitics by Mbembe A Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum
17
Mar
2022
Book Review: Africa Since Decolonization. The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent by Welz, Martin Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum
17
Mar
2022
Book Review: Risko und HIV/Aids in Botswana. Leben in der Pandemie by Astrid Bochow Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum

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Impactful Papers

Altmetric Attention Score: 55
African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub-Saharan Religious Nones and New Scholarly Horizons Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum2021-11-10

Altmetric Attention Score: 29
Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum2022-06-15

Altmetric Attention Score: 13
“Stop Calling Me a Youth!”: Understanding and Analysing Heterogeneity Among Ugandan Youth Agripreneurs Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum2022-06-14

Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Ethnicity, Exclusion, and Exams: Education Policy and Politics in Burundi from the Independent Republics to the Civil War (1966–1993)
Africa Spectrum2021-06-28

Altmetric Attention Score: 6
Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: “Working Practices” of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum2021-11-11

Altmetric Attention Score: 6
Dear German Academia: What is Your Role in African Knowledge Production? Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum2022-03-09

Altmetric Attention Score: 5
The Quantification of Child Labour by Ghana’s Mass Media: A Missed Opportunity? Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum2022-04-27

Altmetric Attention Score: 5
African Studies in Distress: German Scholarship on Africa and the Neglected Challenge of Decoloniality Gold Open Access
Africa Spectrum2022-02-18


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Navigating the landscape of defiant scholarship in and beyond Africa: On archives, bridges and dangers. A commentary on Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's ‘Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies’.
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Cited Half-Life

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Cited median publication year:
2014

Scholars
Authors who recently published in Africa Spectrum:
Scholar Affiliation
Tycho van der Hoog Netherlands
Lena Kroeker Germany
James Sumberg N/A
Dibyendu Sahana India
Juliana Tappe Ortiz Germany
Michelle Kuenzi USA
Rüdiger Seesemann Germany
Georgi Asatryan Russia
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