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History in Africa

academic journal
Periodical scientific_journal Q15758694
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Summary

History in Africa is a scientific journal[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of scientific journal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (37 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: history journal[4], academic journal[5]
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press[6]
  • Language of work or name: English[7]
  • Archives at: Portico[8], CLOCKSS[9]
  • Country of origin: United States[10]
  • Inception: January 1, 1974[11]
  • Official website: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=HIA[12], http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hia/[13], http://www.jstor.org/journals/03615413.html[14]
  • Main subject: African studies[15], history of Africa[16], historical method[17], study of history[18], history[19]
  • Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level: 1[20]
  • Title: History In Africa: A Journal of Method[21], History in Africa: A Journal of Debates, Methods, and Source Analysis[22]
  • Universal Decimal Classification (works and editions): 001(6)[23]
  • Indexed in bibliographic review: Scopus[24], SCImago Journal Rank[25]

Why It Matters

History in Africa is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . cambridge.org. Retrieved . cambridge.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JournalBase. journalbase.cnrs.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JournalBase. journalbase.cnrs.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . BFI 2012 journal list. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · Pmartinolli · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Indexed in bibliographic review → Scopus, SCImago Journal Rank
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40375|batch #40375]]: America: history & life database"
  2. 15w ago · Pmartinolli · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iso 4 abbreviation → Hist. Afr.
    Archives at → Portico, CLOCKSS
    Erih plus journal id → 340133
    Freebase id → /m/010lyqtq
    + 31 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40214|batch #40214]]: historical abstracts journals"
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