Journal of African Archaeology

Academic journal

*Journal of African Archaeology*
Publication details
Discipline	Archaeology
Language	English
Edited by	Katherine Grillo
History	2003–present
Publisher	Brill Publishers on behalf of the Goethe University Frankfurt
Frequency	Biannually
Open access	Delayed, after 3 years
Impact factor	1.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Afr. Archaeol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1612-1651 (print) 2191-5784 (web)
LCCN	2019263235
JSTOR	16121651
OCLC no.	54060298
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The Journal of African Archaeology is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering archaeological studies on Africa. It was established by Sonja Magnavita in 2003. From 2003 to 2016, the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies and the Department of African Archaeology and Archaeobotany of Goethe University Frankfurt published it in association with Africa Magna Verlag. Since 2017, the departments publish it in association with Brill Publishers.^[1]^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Anthropological Literature^[3]
Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[4]
Current Contents/Arts & Humanities^[4]
EBSCO databases^[3]
International Bibliography of Periodical Literature^[3]
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences^[3]
Scopus^[5]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 1.4.^[6]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:

Katherine Grillo (2018–present)
Peter Breunig [de]^[7]
Sonja Magnavita^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Brill Set to Publish The Journal of African Archaeology". Society for Scholarly Publishing. New Jersey, US. 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^ "Journal of African Archaeology". Zeitschriften Datenbank. Germany: German National Library. Archived from the original on May 27, 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Journal of African Archaeology". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
^ "Source details: Journal of African Archaeology". Scopus Preview. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
^ "Journal of African Archaeology". 2022 Journal Citation Reports (Arts and Humanities ed.). Clarivate. 2023 – via Web of Science.
^ Ogundiran, Akinwumi, ed. (2005). Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Trenton, New Jersey, US: Africa World. p. 538. ISBN 978-1592212187. OCLC 60715180.