Slavery and Abolition

Aims & Scope

Slavery & Abolition is the only journal devoted in its entirety to a discussion of the demographic, socio-economic, historical and psychological aspects of human bondage from the ancient period to the present.

It is also concerned with the dismantling of the slave systems and with the legacy of slavery.

The journal publishes research articles, comments, reflections, review articles and book reviews.

There are frequent special thematic issues and an important annual bibliographical supplement on slavery which provides the only comprehensive listing of books and articles in the field.

All research articles published in regular issues of the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.238

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	31

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	1.00

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	19118

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	73

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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.

• Customs and Costumes: Carlos Julião and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Silvia Hunold

• Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa? New light on an eighteenth‐century question of identity

  Citation: 92

  Authors: Vincent

• Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Paul E.

• Convicts and Coolies: Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Clare

• Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean

  Citation: 53

  Authors: J.S., K.M.

• ‘My own nation’: Igbo Exiles in the Diaspora

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Douglas B.

• The slave trade remembered on the former gold and slave coasts

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Theresa

• Neighbourhoods and Solidarity in the Natchez District of Mississippi: Rethinking the Antebellum Slave Community

  Citation: 49

  Authors: A.E.

• ‘With grains in her hair’: rice in colonial Brazil

  Citation: 49

  Authors: Judith A.

• The nameless and the forgotten: maternal grief, sacred protection, and the archive of slavery

  Citation: 47

  Authors: Sasha

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