- By Mussa N. Chirwa and Alfred S. Sife
- Issue No. 2 (Jun. 2018), Volume No.8
Africa’s Contribution to the Global Open Access Literature
This study was conducted to determine the contribution of Africa to the global open access literature. Data were extracted from the Directory of Open Access Repository (OpenDOAR). The findings indicate that only 22 (40.74%) African countries contributed 155 OA repositories in the OpenDOAR. Most of these repositories were from South Africa (33; 21.29%), Kenya (28; […]
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- Issue No. 1 (Mar. 2017), Volume No.7
Scientometric Analysis of Tribology Research in African Countries
The aim of this paper is to examine the research productivity on tribology contributed by African countries. The related bibliographic records are extracted from Science Citation Index – Expanded of WOS. The analyzed parameters are: publication year, documenttype, language, country, institution, author, journal, number of citations andinternational collaboration. Earliest article in tribology research by African […]
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