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The intended focus of <em>Jàmbá</em> (meaning disaster in Yoruba) is on the African continent but also welcomes related articles from other regions. The journal crosses and affects disciplinary boundaries to promote communication, collaboration and teamwork between professions and disciplines to avoid disaster risk creation, address the vulnerability, or limit the adverse impacts of hazards, within the broad context of sustainable development. The journal attempts to address how societal resilience can be built within the context of sustainable development. The journal covers all areas of disaster risk reduction and resilience.</p> <p> </p> <p>The journal is vital to the African and wider global south research community as it creates discourse on disaster risk management which can inform policy-makers and legislative stakeholders on how to develop more effective and responsive policies, programmes, and applied planning to reduce communities’ vulnerability to natural and anthropogenic hazards.</p> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div id="aff"> <p style="color: #8a1e04;">Historic data</p> <hr style="border-top: dotted 1px;" /> <p><em>Jàmbá</em> was launched in 2007 under the <a title="African Centre for Disaster Studies" href="http://acds.co.za/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">African Centre for Disaster Studies</a> (ACDS) at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) in South Africa. After a number of difficult years for the journal, the <a title="South African National Disaster Management Centre" href="http://www.ndmc.gov.za/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">South African National Disaster Management Centre</a> partnered with the ACDS. Through their continued financial support, the journal were able to establish itself as a credible open access journal on the African continent. The word <em>Jàmbá </em>means <em>disaster </em>in Yoruba, which is a West African ethnic group. <em>Jàmbá </em>is a journal in the field of disaster risk reduction, aimed at serving as a platform for discussion and debate in this relatively new field. From January 2012, <em>Jàmbá</em> obtained accreditation status from the South African Department of Higher Education and Training. <em>Jàmbá </em>is also the official journal of the <a href="http://www.sasdir.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Southern Africa Society for Disaster Reduction</a> (SASDiR). The open access publication is made possible through the support of the South African National Disaster Management Centre.</p> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div id="pubf"> <p style="color: #8a1e04;">Publication frequency</p> <hr /> <p>The journal publishes one issue each year. Articles are published online when ready for publication and then printed in an end-of-year compilation. Additional issues may be published for special events (e.g. conferences) and when special themes are addressed.</p> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div id="toap"> <p style="color: #8a1e04;">Types of articles published</p> <hr /> <p>Read full details on the <a title="Submission guidelines" href="/index.php/jamba/pages/view/submission-guidelines#part_1">submissions guidelines</a> page.</p> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div id="opena"> <p style="color: #8a1e04;">Open access</p> <hr /> <p>This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. 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It was never intended to measure the quality of journals, and definitely not the quality of individual articles.<br /> <br />The Impact Factor is a journal-level measurement reflecting the yearly average number of citations of recent articles published in that journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field; journals with higher Impact Factors are often deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Therefore, the more often articles in the journal are cited, the higher its Impact Factor.<br /> <br />The Impact Factor is highly discipline-dependent due to the speed with which articles get cited in each field and the related citation practices. The percentage of total citations occurring in the first two years after publication varies highly amongst disciplines. Accordingly, one cannot compare journals across disciplines based on their relative Impact Factors.<br /> <br />We provide several citation-based measurements for each of our journals, if available. We caution our authors, readers and researchers that they should assess the quality of the content of individual articles, and not judge the quality of articles by the reputation of the journal in which they are published.</p> <p> </p> <table style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6; width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p><strong>Citation-based measurement   </strong></p> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p><strong>2023</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p><a href="http://wokinfo.com/essays/impact-factor/" target="_blank"><strong>Journal Impact Factor, based on Web of Science (formerly ISI)</strong></a></p> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p>1.3</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p><a href="https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14880/supporthub/scopus/" target="_blank"><strong>CiteScore, based on SCOPUS, Elsevier</strong></a></p> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p>2.6</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p><a href="https://blog.scopus.com/posts/journal-metrics-in-scopus-source-normalized-impact-per-paper-snip" target="_blank"><strong>Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), based on SCOPUS, Elsevier</strong></a></p> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p>0.63</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p><a href="https://www.scimagojr.com/aboutus.php" target="_blank"><strong>Scimago Journal Rank (SJR), based on SCOPUS, Elsevier</strong></a></p> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p>0.32</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/metrics.html#metrics" target="_blank"><strong>H5-index, based on Google Scholar</strong></a></p> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #d6d6d6;" width="50%"> <p>28.00</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> </p> </div>  <div id='advert' width="100%" style='text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;'> <div style="text-align:center; font-size: 10px">ADVERTISEMENT</div>  <ins data-revive-zoneid="28" data-revive-id="4be56a8d303b17cd95b9e662de0549a5"></ins> <script async src="//revive.aosis.co.za/www/delivery/asyncjs.php"></script> </div> <div id="pageFooter"><script type="text/javascript" src="/public/d5c6e149e1019dfeb4d53608e2b9d694.js"></script><div id="newpagefooter"><div id="footerleft"><span id="contactus"><strong>African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS</strong><br />Reg No: 2002/002017/07<br />International Tel: +27 21 975 2602<br />5 Hafele Street, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa<br />publishing(AT)aosis.co.za replace (AT) with @ <br /></span><span id="contactustnc"><br />All articles published in this journal are licensed under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a> (CC BY 4.0) license, unless otherwise stated. <br />Website design & content: ©2025 <a href="https://www.aosis.co.za" target="_blank"> AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.</a> All rights reserved. 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