The nature and trends of agricultural research development in Africa : an informetric study

Ocholla, Dennis N. and Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire The nature and trends of agricultural research development in Africa : an informetric study., 2006 . In International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France), May 10 - 12, 2006. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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The study recognizes Agriculture as the mainstay activity of most economies in Africa and analyses research nature and trends in the discipline by using descriptive informetrics and focusing on seven indicators, by using the AGRICOLA and ISI-E databases from 1991 to 2005. We observed that research output in the discipline is much higher in South Africa and Kenya, and research collaboration is greater than non-collaborative research output and collaboration is less among African countries. The most popular research domains were found to exist in environmental science, soil science, plant/crop production and [agricultural] economics. Helpful conclusions and recommendations for an Agricultural policy, capacity and research orientation have been made.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: agricultural research, Africa, informetrics, Agricola, ISI-E
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Heather G Morrison
Date deposited: 29 May 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:03
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7603

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