''The Journal of African History'' (JAH) is a triannual

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

. It was established in 1960 and is published by

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambr ...

. It was among the first specialist journals to be devoted to

African history The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300–250,000 years ago— anatomically modern humans ('' Homo sapiens''), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of d ...

and

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts ...

and was founded by John Fage and Roland Oliver. As stated on the journal's website: The current editors are Professor Shane Doyle
University of Leeds, UK
', Professor Dan Magaziner
Yale University, USA
', Professor Marissa Moorman
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
', and Professor Moses Ochonu
Vanderbilt University, USA
'.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the official website, the journal has a 2015

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

of 0.857.

References

External links

* African history journals Cambridge University Press academic journals English-language journals Triannual journals Publications established in 1960 {{hist-journal-stub