Top journals from Ethiopia
All 20 ranked journals whose publisher is in Ethiopia, ordered by the ITS Journal Score (2021–2025, open OpenAlex data).
Ethiopia in numbers
Ethiopia has 20 journals with an ITS Journal Score, #86 of 148 countries by number of ranked journals. Together they published 2,566 papers in 2021–2025, and 100% of these papers are open access. 9 of the journals (45%) are listed in DOAJ. The most common fields are Social Sciences (7), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4), Medicine (4) journals.
Country here is the publisher's country as recorded in OpenAlex. A journal's editors and authors may be based elsewhere.
Ranked journals
| Rank in country | Global rank | Journal | Field | Score | Papers 2021–2025 | h-index | Open access | DOAJ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #10,799 | Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences Jimma University | Medicine | 63.3 | 565 | 63 | 100% | Yes |
| 2 | #11,432 | Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia Chemical Society of Ethiopia | Chemistry | 62.3 | 606 | 37 | 100% | Yes |
| 3 | #21,845 | Ethiopian Veterinary Journal African Journals OnLine | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 47.0 | 89 | 24 | 100% | — |
| 4 | #22,215 | SINET Ethiopian Journal of Science African Journals OnLine | Environmental Science | 46.5 | 104 | 27 | 100% | — |
| 5 | #23,146 | Momona Ethiopian Journal of Science African Journals OnLine | Environmental Science | 45.4 | 93 | 26 | 100% | Yes |
| 6 | #27,537 | Mizan Law Review St. Mary's University | Social Sciences | 40.8 | 84 | 14 | 100% | Yes |
| 7 | #27,967 | PanAfrican Journal of Governance and Development (PJGD) Jimma University | Social Sciences | 40.4 | 96 | 7 | 100% | Yes |
| 8 | #30,106 | Ethiopian Medical Journal Ethiopian Medical Association | Medicine | 38.4 | 94 | 10 | 100% | — |
| 9 | #39,461 | Bahir Dar Journal of Education African Journals OnLine | Social Sciences | 30.8 | 77 | 4 | 100% | Yes |
| 10 | #41,549 | Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities African Journals OnLine | Social Sciences | 29.1 | 55 | 7 | 100% | Yes |
| 11 | #42,877 | East African Journal of Biophysical and Computational Sciences African Journals OnLine | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28.1 | 58 | 4 | 100% | Yes |
| 12 | #49,189 | Ethiopian Journal of Business and Economics (The) African Journals OnLine | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 23.1 | 80 | 8 | 100% | — |
| 13 | #50,078 | Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science Arba Minch University | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22.3 | 66 | 4 | 100% | — |
| 14 | #52,212 | Abyssinia Journal of Business and Social Sciences | Social Sciences | 20.4 | 105 | 3 | 100% | — |
| 15 | #52,736 | African journal of economics and business research. Hawassa University | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 19.9 | 62 | 3 | 100% | — |
| 16 | #53,621 | OMO International Journal of Sciences Arba Minch University | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19.1 | 57 | 4 | 100% | — |
| 17 | #59,797 | African Journal of Leadership and Development Addis Ababa University | Social Sciences | 11.3 | 58 | 2 | 100% | Yes |
| 18 | #60,378 | Hawassa University Journal of Law African Journals OnLine | Social Sciences | 10.0 | 76 | 1 | 100% | — |
| 19 | #60,913 | ETHIOPIAN JOURNAL OF SPORT SCIENCE | Medicine | 8.6 | 86 | 1 | 100% | — |
| 20 | #61,720 | Ethiopian Journal of Medical and Health Sciences Hawassa University | Medicine | 6.4 | 55 | 1 | 100% | — |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.