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Adonis & Abbey Publishers (www.adonis-abbey.com) was incorporated in the United Kingdom on March 18 2003. It started its journey from a kitchen in South East London where the publisher lived then. Today the company has published nearly 200 titles. Its books are distributed across the world.

In 2004, the company extended into journal publishing with the twin aims of addressing the problem of high mortality rate of academic journals published by Africans and enabling African scholars to own their research agenda rather than constantly anticipating the needs of the funding agencies which, in those days, usually funded the publication of such journals. Quite often journals published by departments or faculties in African Universities in those days tended to fizzle out once the main drivers of such journals were no longer there or once funds dried up.

Today the company has become a respected publisher of peer-reviewed and indexed academic journals. Currently it publishes 27 journals all of which are indexed by various respected indexers, including seven by SCOPUS, 13 by IBSS and 13 accredited by DHET, the South African regulator of Higher Education . Two of the SCOPUS-indexed journals are ranked Q2 by SCimago Journal Ranking.

In December 2023, Adonis & Abbey Publishers was accepted as a publishing partner by the Web of Science after a rigorous assessment, which enables the company to submit books for evaluation for the WoS’s Book Citation Index (BKCI). Already, of the initial titles submitted for evaluation, two have been accepted for indexing.

In 2021, the company started a Nigeria-focused imprint, PCJ Press Ltd (www.pcjpress.com), to print, publish and distribute books of all genre in Nigeria. The company also publishes the online newspaper, The News Chronicle (www.thenews-chronicle.com).

Quotes about Adonis & Abbey Publishers

“By having a London base, by publishing work by academics based in Nigeria and across the Nigerian diaspora, and by ensuring global distribution and indexing, Adonis and Abbey has managed to bridge the local–global gap. It is a gap that other Nigerian journals and presses struggle to cross”
By David Mills and Abigail Branford (2022), in “Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy”, published in the journal, Africa (Cambridge University Press), p. 853

“But our book shows how African researchers, editors and publishers are finding creative ways of not only ‘getting by’ but also developing a global scholarly reputation. Examples include Adonis & Abbey publishers, based in Nigeria and the UK, publishing journals that are indexed in a range of global databases, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa based in Senegal (CODESRIA) with a pan-African reputation for its social science journals, and Hindawi, started by two Egyptian researchers in Cairo in 1997, and which became a global ‘top-10’ journal publisher before being acquired by Wiley in January 2021 for US$300 million.” Cited in the review of the book: Who Counts? Ghanaian academic publishing and global science, published by African Minds in 2023 and reviewed by Wagdy Sawahel under the title “Escaping ‘bibliometric coloniality’, ‘epistemic inequality’”, in World University News (African edition), on 15 February 2023: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20230213021356132


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