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Journal of Asian and African Studies Template

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About the Journal of Asian and African Studies format

Journal of Asian and African Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering African history and culture studies, Chinese history and philosophy, African history and culture analysis.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Asian and African Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inAfrican history and culture studies Chinese history and philosophy African history and culture analysis International Development and Aid Japanese History and Culture
ISSN0021-9096
Citation impact (2-yr)1.31
h-index50
i10-index656
Total citations22,767
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Nigeria
Journal websitejas.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Asian and African Studies per year

89
2014
73
2015
56
2016
45
2017
51
2018
92
2019
116
2020
154
2021
181
2022
208
2023
231
2024
182
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Asian and African Studies by publication year

1.2K
2014
1K
2015
798
2016
330
2017
722
2018
1.2K
2019
1.1K
2020
1.4K
2021
1.2K
2022
731
2023
502
2024
99
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Asian and African Studies

Institutions and Organizations

1 Jan 1966

Institutions—the structures, practices, and meanings that define what people and organizations think, do, and aspire to—are created through process. They are “work in progress” that involves continual efforts to maintain, modify, or disturb them. Institutional logics are also in motion, holding varying degrees of dominance that change over time. This volume brings together two streams…

‘Potted Plants in Greenhouses’: A Critical Reflection on the Resilience of Colonial Education in Africa

Francis B. Nyamnjoh · 15 Feb 2012

This paper draws on Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino and other critical voices to argue that education in Africa is victim of a resilient colonial and colonizing epistemology, which takes the form of science as ideology and hegemony. Postcolonial African elite justify the resilience of this epistemology and the education it inspires with rhetoric on…

Incompleteness: Frontier Africa and the Currency of Conviviality

Francis B. Nyamnjoh · 23 Apr 2015

This paper makes a case for conviviality as a currency for frontier Africans. It argues that incompleteness is the normal order of things, and that conviviality invites us to celebrate and preserve incompleteness and mitigate the delusions of grandeur that come with ambitions and claims of completeness. Conviviality encourages frontier Africans to reach out, encounter…

The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics: Reflections on Xenophobic Violence in South Africa

Michael Neocosmos · 1 Dec 2008

Reflecting on the causes of the recent xenophobic pogroms in South Africa, it is striking how most commentators have stressed poverty and deprivation as the underlying causes of the events. Yet it requires little effort to see that economic factors, however real, cannot possibly account for why it was those deemed to be non-South Africans…

Journal of Asian and African Studies template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Journal of Asian and African Studies format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Journal of Asian and African Studies template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Journal of Asian and African Studies use?
Journal of Asian and African Studies uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Asian and African Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Journal of Asian and African Studies?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Journal of Asian and African Studies document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
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Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Journal of Asian and African Studies format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
Who publishes Journal of Asian and African Studies?
Journal of Asian and African Studies is a multidisciplinary journal published by SAGE. DocuGuru's Journal of Asian and African Studies template matches SAGE's official submission format.
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