Acta Academica

Aims & Scope

Acta Academica is an academic journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities.

The journal publishes scholarly articles that examine society, culture and politics past and present from a critical social theory perspective.

The journal is also interested on scholarly work that examines how the humanities in the 21st century are responding to the double imperative of theorising the world and changing it.

The journal appears four times a year and two of its issues are thematically focused.

The journal is published in English.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Apc url

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Improving professionalism in South African local government

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Hendri, Fanie

• Conversationalism as an emerging method of thinking in and beyond African philosophy

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Jonathan O.

• Epistemic (in)justice and decolonisation in higher education: experiences of a cross- site teaching project

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Su-ming, Witold, Christina, Cori

• Reflecting on the ethics of PhD research in the Global South: reciprocity, reflexivity and situatedness

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Chris, Siti, Enid

• #Blesser: A critical evaluation of conceptual antecedents and the allure of a transactional relationship

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Prevan, Sumayya

• Race silence: the oversignification of black men in “the crisis of/in masculinities” in post-apartheid South Africa

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Siphiwe Ignatius

• Challenging the way we know the world: overcoming paralysis and utilising discomfort through critical reflexive thought

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Grace, Vanessa

• Being Black in South African higher education: An intersectional insight

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Mlamuli Nkosingphile

• Gendered human (in)security in South Africa: what can ubuntu feminism offer?

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Gretchen Erika

• Patronage, state capture and oligopolistic monopoly in South Africa: The slide from a weak to a dysfunctional state?

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Pieter