African Security
Last updated ISSN 1939-2206
African Security is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in African Security concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- International Development and Aid
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Global Security and Public Health
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- African history and culture analysis
- African history and culture studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1939-2206, 1939-2214 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 341 |
| Publishing since | 2008 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/uafs20/current |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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