Scientific African is a Gold OA journal published by Elsevier, covering a wide range of disciplines including biology, chemistry, medicine, ecology, engineering, physics, organic chemistry, geography, geology, environmental science, computer science, mathematics, biochemistry, economics, internal medicine, genetics, materials science, and paleontology. The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of this journal is 2468-2276. According to the data for 2023, the impact factor for Scientific Africa is 2.7, which is a decrease from 2.9 in 2022. This journal is included in the ESCI database of Multidisciplinary Sciences and is ranked in Q2 of the JCR partition in the field, with a ranking of 38/134. In addition, the journal has a self citation rate of 0.00% and is not included in the SCI journal partition of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, nor is it on the international journal alert list.