About the journal
Scientific African is an open-access journal published by Elsevier in Netherlands, publishing in english. It is listed in DOAJ according to the sources read. Declared publication charge: 770 USD. Declared review time at DOAJ: 21 weeks. Facts are reproduced as recorded at their sources with their capture dates; PublishLens indicators are available after sign-in.
Basic facts
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- ISSN
- 2468-2276
- Country
- Netherlands
- Languages
- english
- Access
- Open access
- Declared publication charge
- 770 USD
- Articles in DOAJ
- 3248
- Declared review time
- 21 weeks
- Declared peer-review model
- peer_review
- Official website
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/scientific-african
Index listings
- DOAJ · 2018-12-31
- Indexing
- DOAJ
- APC
- 770 USD
- Declared review time (DOAJ)
- 21 weeks — journal-declared only (not measured)
- Activity (OpenAlex)
- Active — latest works 2026
- PublishLens list status
- Shown after sign-in
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Articles in DOAJ
3248
Most recent article
last month
Average review time (journal-declared via DOAJ)
21weeks
Works in OpenAlex
3328
Last recorded publication year
2026
h-index
72
i10-index
1111
From OpenAlex open data (CC0).
Editorial & policy12
- Last DOAJ review date
- 2026-04-27
- Added to DOAJ
- 2018-12-31
- Declared plagiarism screening
- Not declared
- Other fees beyond APC
- No
- Declared digital preservation
- CLOCKSSPortico
- Observed digital preservation (Keepers registry)— snapshot 2026-10-05
- CLOCKSSPortico
- Editorial board
- Official page ↗
- Norwegian register (HK-dir)— 2026
- Level 1 — approved scholarly channel
- Open references deposited at Crossref
- 98%
- ORCID iDs in current deposits
- 89%
- Deposits licence metadata at Crossref
- ✓
- APC waiver policy
- View policy
- Peer-review policy
- View policy
Identity & continuity3
- Source type
- journal
- NLM unique ID (PubMed)
- 101771789
- Society affiliations
- owned by the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and operated by the NEF Community of Scientists
Classification2
Subjects (DOAJ)
LCC codes
Subject areas
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
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- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
- Heavy metals in environment
- Heavy metals in environment
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies
- Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Fractional Differential Equations Solutions
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Fractional Differential Equations Solutions
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
Keywords (DOAJ)
- africa
- science
- health
- environment
- engineering
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