title: South African Journal of Science
text: # South African Journal of Science
  
  The South African Journal of Science is an open access, multidisciplinary academic journal published bimonthly by the Academy of Science of South Africa. The journal has a 2021 impact factor 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
  