Journal of Eastern African Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Eastern African Studies is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–7620
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya14
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards11
The untold stories of militiamen from Gojjam, Ethiopia: voices of distress and desperation from the Ogaden and Eritrean fronts, 1977–199110
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo8
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands6
Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia6
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–20056
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–19406
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