The ''South African Journal of Science'' is an

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published bimonthly by the

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. The journal has a 2021

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of 2.134.

History

The journal was established in 1903 as the ''Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science''. The annual volume became a monthly publication in August 1947.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *Scopus *Science Citation Index Expanded *Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences *Current Contents/Life Sciences *The Zoological Record *BIOSIS Previews

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* * Multidisciplinary academic journals Publications established in 1903 Monthly journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals English-language journals 1903 establishments in the British Empire Academic journals published in South Africa {{journal-stub