Journal of Eastern African Studies

Aims & Scope

Journal of Eastern African Studies is an international publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, published four times each year.

It aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries.

It seeks to foster inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives, and research employing the most significant theoretical or methodological approaches for the region.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.90

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.405

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	39

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13665

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	111

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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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.

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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.

• The Political Economy of Kenya's Crisis

  Citation: 158

  Authors: Susanne D.

• Exploring the usage and impact of “transformational” mobile financial services: the case of M-PESA in Kenya

  Citation: 152

  Authors: Olga

• Voting in Kenya: Putting Ethnicity in Perspective

  Citation: 131

  Authors: Michael, Mwangi S.

• Ethnic-based federalism and ethnicity in Ethiopia: reassessing the experiment after 20 years

  Citation: 124

  Authors: Jon

• The Kenyan Elections of 2007: An Introduction

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Nic

• Frontier transformations: development visions, spaces and processes in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

  Citation: 105

  Authors: Jason, Elizabeth E.

• The “hustle” amongst youth entrepreneurs in Mathare's informal waste economy

  Citation: 102

  Authors: Tatiana A.

• Revolutionary democratic state-building: party, state and people in the EPRDF's Ethiopia

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Sarah

• “Our daughters inherit our land, but our sons use their wives' fields”: matrilineal-matrilocal land tenure and the New Land Policy in Malawi

  Citation: 92

  Authors: Pauline E.

• Violence and Exodus in Kenya's Rift Valley, 2008: Predictable and Preventable?

  Citation: 79

  Authors: David, Emma

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