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Research Collaborations and Scientific productivity among the Research Universities in South Africa

Jacobs, Daisy and Pichappan, P. (2006) Research Collaborations and Scientific productivity among the Research Universities in South Africa. In Proceedings International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France).

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Abstract

This study presents the share of 5 most productive South African institutions for the main stream scientific out put covering the 10 year periods of 1995-2004. This paper discusses the distribution of publications by institutions, Index of specialization, collaboration and pattern of co-authorship. The result shows that South African authors collaborate more frequently with international authors with a percentage of (73.99%) than did so for national collaboration which amount to (26.01%). This was confirmed statistically at the confidence level of P-value <0.025. A further non-parametric chi-square statistical analysis illustrated that there are significant differences in the proportion of co-authorship among the 5 institutions (p-value<0.005).

Keywords:research collaborations South Afrida
Subjects:B. Information use and sociology of information. > BA. Use and impact of information.
ID Code:6117
Deposited By:Morrison, Heather G
Deposited On:27 April 2006
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