Journal of Eastern African Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Eastern African Studies is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–7612
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya10
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards8
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands7
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo7
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia6
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity6
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–19406
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