0.3(top 25%)
Impact Factor
0.3(top 25%)
extended IF
65(top 6%)
H-Index
189
authors
4.3K
papers
28.3K
citations
2.8K
citing journals
4.7K
citing authors

Most Cited Articles of Journal of Modern African Studies

TitleYearCitations
Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana19731.3K
A moral economy of corruption in Africa?1999413
Presidentialism and clientelism in Africa's emerging party systems2003304
China's engagement in Africa: scope, significance and consequences2006275
What is The Problem About Corruption?1965234
Underdevelopment and Dependence in Black Africa — Origins and Contemporary Forms1972200
Bush path to destruction: the origin and character of the Revolutionary United Front/Sierra Leone1998177
African Shenzhen: China's special economic zones in Africa2011168
What accountability pressures do MPs in Africa face and how do they respond? Evidence from Ghana*2010134
Decentralising the State: District Focus and the Politics of Reallocation in Kenya1989132
The Nature of Class Domination in Africa1979128
The Ideology of ‘Tribalism’1971120
The terrible toll of post-colonial ‘rebel movements’ in Africa: towards an explanation of the violence against the peasantry2002114
African military coups d'état, 1956–2001: frequency, trends and distribution2003110
Explaining the 1994 genocide in Rwanda1999108
Land Tenure and Investment in African Agriculture: Theory and Evidence1990107
Selected chiefs, elected councillors and hybrid democrats: popular perspectives on the co-existence of democracy and traditional authority*2009103
From Prebendalism to Predation: the Political Economy of Decline in Nigeria1996102
When men do women's work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, Ghana200797
Multiplex livelihoods in rural Africa: recasting the terms and conditions of gainful employment200294
Interpreting the Exceptionality of Botswana199294
Hijacking civil society: the inside story of the Bakassi Boys vigilante group of south-eastern Nigeria200792
Safe sects? Dynamic religion and AIDS in South Africa200092
African Military Coups d'État and Underdevelopment: a Quantitative Historical Analysis198492
Knowledge, power and politics: the environmental policy-making process in Ethiopia200091