Black Scholar

Launched in the USA in 1969 The Black Scholar (TBS) is the first modern black studies and research journal. It was founded on the premise that black writers, scholars, activists and artists could participate in dialogue within its pages. TBS' primary mission has been to chronicle, analyze and debate the conditions of and the emancipatory efforts by black people, against a multitude of oppressions that include and cross class, nationality, gender, generation, sexuality, and ideology. Due in part to the impact of the journal, Black Studies, Africana Studies, Diaspora Studies and other sub-disciplines have become legitimate spaces of scholarly inquiry. However there are few public intellectual spaces that focus on black thought, are dedicated to the new multiplicity of black perspectives (or perspectives on race) that have emerged through these disciplines, and engage with the new issues and concerns facing black communities worldwide. The Black Scholar is one of those spaces. Also, our rich mix of the scholarly and the artistic, the professional and the public/non-specialist, remains rare, as is our openness to different forms and techniques of political engagement. Building on the journal’s initial vision, TBS aims to not only “unite the academy and the street” but also participate in a global black intellectual and cultural world that has multiple contexts and a range of materials and opinions far greater than when the journal was founded. The journal continues to engage and cultivate differential black political conversations and cultural interests (African American, African, European, Latin American, for example) while maintaining its core commitment to tough minded thinking and an overall liberationist intent. This means that we welcome submissions (in English and in translation) from anywhere in the world as long as they meet the criteria articulated on our website or in the journal.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	1999	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2000	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2001	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2002	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2003	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2004	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2005	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2006	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2007	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2008	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2009	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2010	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2011	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2012	Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2013	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2014	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2015	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2016	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2017	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2018	Q2
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2019	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2020	Q2
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2021	Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2022	Q2
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)	2023	Q3
Cultural Studies	1999	Q3
Cultural Studies	2000	Q3
Cultural Studies	2001	Q1
Cultural Studies	2002	Q3
Cultural Studies	2003	Q3
Cultural Studies	2004	Q4
Cultural Studies	2005	Q4
Cultural Studies	2006	Q3
Cultural Studies	2007	Q3
Cultural Studies	2008	Q4
Cultural Studies	2009	Q3
Cultural Studies	2010	Q2
Cultural Studies	2011	Q2
Cultural Studies	2012	Q3
Cultural Studies	2013	Q2
Cultural Studies	2014	Q3
Cultural Studies	2015	Q2
Cultural Studies	2016	Q2
Cultural Studies	2017	Q2
Cultural Studies	2018	Q1
Cultural Studies	2019	Q2
Cultural Studies	2020	Q1
Cultural Studies	2021	Q3
Cultural Studies	2022	Q2
Cultural Studies	2023	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	1999	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2000	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2001	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2002	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2003	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2004	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2005	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2006	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2007	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2008	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2009	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2010	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2011	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2012	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2013	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2014	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2015	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2016	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2017	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2018	Q2
Sociology and Political Science	2019	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2020	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2021	Q4
Sociology and Political Science	2022	Q3
Sociology and Political Science	2023	Q4

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	0.102
2000	0.102
2001	0.227
2002	0.103
2003	0.102
2004	0.101
2005	0.100
2006	0.103
2007	0.111
2008	0.100
2009	0.111
2010	0.139
2011	0.169
2012	0.102
2013	0.131
2014	0.124
2015	0.139
2016	0.168
2017	0.216
2018	0.383
2019	0.150
2020	0.245
2021	0.126
2022	0.230
2023	0.126

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	17
2000	35
2001	21
2002	14
2003	23
2004	32
2005	26
2006	34
2007	29
2008	46
2009	23
2010	27
2011	28
2012	23
2013	53
2014	28
2015	31
2016	25
2017	26
2018	26
2019	25
2020	39
2021	25
2022	23
2023	23

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	0.062
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	0.092
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	0.048
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	0.032
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	0.149
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	0.194
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	0.067
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.063
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.148
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	0.041
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	0.074
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	0.152
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	0.112
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	0.129
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	0.198
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	0.115
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	0.114
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	0.237
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	0.423
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	0.764
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	0.602
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	0.480
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	0.397
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	0.496
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	0.455
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	0.062
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	0.087
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	0.068
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	0.041
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	0.171
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	0.190
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	0.029
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.074
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	0.087
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	0.034
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	0.064
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	0.163
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	0.115
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	0.115
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	0.179
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	0.048
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	0.096
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	0.250
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	0.595
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	0.659
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	0.390
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	0.506
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	0.278
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	0.517
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	0.333
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	0.096
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	0.103
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	0.058
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	0.054
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	0.143
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	0.054
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	0.036
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.069
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	0.117
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	0.016
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	0.067
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	0.203
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	0.100
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	0.055
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	0.078
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	0.013
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	0.086
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	0.424
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	0.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	0.529
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	0.346
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	0.314
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	0.250
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	0.359
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	0.354

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	5
Self Cites	2000	0
Self Cites	2001	2
Self Cites	2002	1
Self Cites	2003	0
Self Cites	2004	4
Self Cites	2005	1
Self Cites	2006	0
Self Cites	2007	1
Self Cites	2008	1
Self Cites	2009	1
Self Cites	2010	3
Self Cites	2011	4
Self Cites	2012	0
Self Cites	2013	2
Self Cites	2014	1
Self Cites	2015	1
Self Cites	2016	0
Self Cites	2017	2
Self Cites	2018	2
Self Cites	2019	0
Self Cites	2020	0
Self Cites	2021	0
Self Cites	2022	0
Self Cites	2023	0
Total Cites	1999	5
Total Cites	2000	6
Total Cites	2001	5
Total Cites	2002	3
Total Cites	2003	12
Total Cites	2004	11
Total Cites	2005	2
Total Cites	2006	6
Total Cites	2007	8
Total Cites	2008	3
Total Cites	2009	7
Total Cites	2010	16
Total Cites	2011	11
Total Cites	2012	9
Total Cites	2013	14
Total Cites	2014	5
Total Cites	2015	10
Total Cites	2016	28
Total Cites	2017	50
Total Cites	2018	54
Total Cites	2019	30
Total Cites	2020	39
Total Cites	2021	25
Total Cites	2022	46
Total Cites	2023	29

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	0.000
External Cites per document	2000	0.087
External Cites per document	2001	0.041
External Cites per document	2002	0.027
External Cites per document	2003	0.171
External Cites per document	2004	0.121
External Cites per document	2005	0.014
External Cites per document	2006	0.074
External Cites per document	2007	0.076
External Cites per document	2008	0.022
External Cites per document	2009	0.055
External Cites per document	2010	0.133
External Cites per document	2011	0.073
External Cites per document	2012	0.115
External Cites per document	2013	0.154
External Cites per document	2014	0.038
External Cites per document	2015	0.087
External Cites per document	2016	0.250
External Cites per document	2017	0.571
External Cites per document	2018	0.634
External Cites per document	2019	0.390
External Cites per document	2020	0.506
External Cites per document	2021	0.278
External Cites per document	2022	0.517
External Cites per document	2023	0.333
Cites per document	1999	0.062
Cites per document	2000	0.087
Cites per document	2001	0.068
Cites per document	2002	0.041
Cites per document	2003	0.171
Cites per document	2004	0.190
Cites per document	2005	0.029
Cites per document	2006	0.074
Cites per document	2007	0.087
Cites per document	2008	0.034
Cites per document	2009	0.064
Cites per document	2010	0.163
Cites per document	2011	0.115
Cites per document	2012	0.115
Cites per document	2013	0.179
Cites per document	2014	0.048
Cites per document	2015	0.096
Cites per document	2016	0.250
Cites per document	2017	0.595
Cites per document	2018	0.659
Cites per document	2019	0.390
Cites per document	2020	0.506
Cites per document	2021	0.278
Cites per document	2022	0.517
Cites per document	2023	0.333

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	0.00
2000	0.00
2001	0.00
2002	0.00
2003	0.00
2004	6.25
2005	0.00
2006	0.00
2007	0.00
2008	0.00
2009	0.00
2010	0.00
2011	0.00
2012	0.00
2013	0.00
2014	0.00
2015	0.00
2016	0.00
2017	0.00
2018	0.00
2019	8.00
2020	2.56
2021	8.00
2022	0.00
2023	0.00

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	72
Non-citable documents	2000	58
Non-citable documents	2001	64
Non-citable documents	2002	65
Non-citable documents	2003	60
Non-citable documents	2004	30
Non-citable documents	2005	13
Non-citable documents	2006	5
Non-citable documents	2007	2
Non-citable documents	2008	3
Non-citable documents	2009	9
Non-citable documents	2010	7
Non-citable documents	2011	7
Non-citable documents	2012	2
Non-citable documents	2013	3
Non-citable documents	2014	4
Non-citable documents	2015	11
Non-citable documents	2016	18
Non-citable documents	2017	20
Non-citable documents	2018	16
Non-citable documents	2019	21
Non-citable documents	2020	23
Non-citable documents	2021	32
Non-citable documents	2022	29
Non-citable documents	2023	28
Citable documents	1999	9
Citable documents	2000	11
Citable documents	2001	10
Citable documents	2002	8
Citable documents	2003	10
Citable documents	2004	28
Citable documents	2005	56
Citable documents	2006	76
Citable documents	2007	90
Citable documents	2008	86
Citable documents	2009	100
Citable documents	2010	91
Citable documents	2011	89
Citable documents	2012	76
Citable documents	2013	75
Citable documents	2014	100
Citable documents	2015	93
Citable documents	2016	94
Citable documents	2017	64
Citable documents	2018	66
Citable documents	2019	56
Citable documents	2020	54
Citable documents	2021	58
Citable documents	2022	60
Citable documents	2023	59

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	76
Uncited documents	2000	63
Uncited documents	2001	71
Uncited documents	2002	70
Uncited documents	2003	58
Uncited documents	2004	49
Uncited documents	2005	67
Uncited documents	2006	75
Uncited documents	2007	85
Uncited documents	2008	86
Uncited documents	2009	103
Uncited documents	2010	86
Uncited documents	2011	86
Uncited documents	2012	70
Uncited documents	2013	66
Uncited documents	2014	100
Uncited documents	2015	95
Uncited documents	2016	97
Uncited documents	2017	62
Uncited documents	2018	55
Uncited documents	2019	56
Uncited documents	2020	55
Uncited documents	2021	74
Uncited documents	2022	63
Uncited documents	2023	68
Cited documents	1999	5
Cited documents	2000	6
Cited documents	2001	3
Cited documents	2002	3
Cited documents	2003	12
Cited documents	2004	9
Cited documents	2005	2
Cited documents	2006	6
Cited documents	2007	7
Cited documents	2008	3
Cited documents	2009	6
Cited documents	2010	12
Cited documents	2011	10
Cited documents	2012	8
Cited documents	2013	12
Cited documents	2014	4
Cited documents	2015	9
Cited documents	2016	15
Cited documents	2017	22
Cited documents	2018	27
Cited documents	2019	21
Cited documents	2020	22
Cited documents	2021	16
Cited documents	2022	26
Cited documents	2023	19