The South African Journal of Science is accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa as it is indexed by the following collections: 

• Norwegian Registry for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (Norwegian List)
• SciELO SA journals indexed by the Web of Science SciELO Citation Index
• Scopus (Elsevier)
• Web of Science:

The journal is also indexed by:

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• ScienceOpen
• EBSCOhost (from 1995)
• Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) through Sabinet
• Sabinet: