Scientific African
Last updated ISSN 2468-2276
Scientific African is published by Elsevier BV in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $590.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Scientific African concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
- Heavy metals in environment
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2468-2276 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $590 |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 3,473 |
| Publishing since | 2009 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/scientific-african |
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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