Why publish in the African Journal of Psychological Assessment (AJOPA)

The African Journal of Psychological Assessment (AJOPA) was established in 2019 and is published in partnership by PsySSA and AOSIS. The journal was founded under the editorship of Professor Sumaya Laher and is currently led by Professor Tyrone Pretorius as Editor-in-Chief.

Since its inception, AJOPA has published 95 scholarly works across article types, attracted 262 registered citations according to Crossref, and achieved close to half a million downloads. These metrics reflect growing international engagement with African-centred scholarship in psychological assessment.

AJOPA is a fully open-access journal and has been indexed in key international databases. It has been listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a DHET-recognised index, since 2020. In 2025, AJOPA was included in PubMed Central and accepted for indexing in Scopus, with database loading currently underway.

AJOPA provides a credible, visible platform for assessment-focused research relevant to African and global contexts, supported by PsySSA and aligned with international publishing standards.

Focus and Scope

AJOPA is intended to serve as a means of combining the current disparate research being conducted in psychometrics and psychological assessment in Africa. Further it is hoped that AJOPA will open up opportunities for collaboration and indigenous knowledge production. The journal will be of both local and international value since the submissions will interrogate the current Eurocentric and Western cultural hegemonic practices that dominate the field of psychological assessment and will lend much to international debates in psychological theory and assessment.

Manuscripts in the areas of psychometrics and psychological assessment are invited. Manuscript submissions must demonstrate a clear contribution to the field and must be of relevance to the African context. Manuscripts can focus on but are not limited to ethics in assessment, establishing the psychometric properties of an instrument, methods in assessment, research on core issues in psychological assessment (eg. assessment in low resource settings, multicultural assessment, acculturation and assessment, language and assessment, assessing people with disabilities) and/or specific areas in assessment (eg. cognitive, personality, vocational, intelligence, aptitude) and/or particular settings (clinical, educational, forensic, organisational, neuropsychological assessment). Manuscripts make take the form of original research studies, theoretical papers, test reviews and methods papers.

Publication Frequency

Open Access