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Narváez-Berthélemot, Nora; Russell, Jane A.; Arvanitis, Rigas; Waast, Roland; Gaillard, Jacques

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“…Past studies of Africa's research output from the 1990s suggest that the institutions with whom African institutions collaborate the most are from the United States and Europe (Narváez-Berthelemot et al 2002). Moreover, the exact list of top countries with which African institutions collaborate depends on those institutions' colonial ties-for example, South Africa and other former British colonies tended to collaborate more with the United Kingdom (Sooryamoorthy 2009), while Francophone countries collaborated more with France, and so forth.…”

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Sub-Saharan African Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research: A Decade of Development

Blom¹,

Lan²,

Adil³

2015

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Section: Top Collaborating Institutionsmentioning

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Sub-Saharan African Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research: A Decade of Development

Blom¹,

Lan²,

Adil³

2015

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“…According to several studies, South Africa and Egypt produced most of the African scientific papers in the 1990s. Research was focused on clinical medicine, biology and chemistry, while international collaboration was done mostly with the USA and France but normally with those countries playing the leading roles in the projects (Narváez-Berthelemot, Russel, Arvanitis, Waast, & Gaillard, 2002). Also, at that time, basic science declined, agricultural and medical sciences stagnated and only engineering grew (Arvanitis et al, 2000).…”

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Research impact and productivity of Benin according to the Science Citation Index Expanded (1973 to 2018)

Mónge-Nájera

Mêgnigbêto²,

2020

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Introduction: In Benin, a tropical West African country of 11 million inhabitants where the economy is based on agriculture, the only bibliometric work available has focused on the role of collaboration among researchers, but there are no general long term studies of the country’s scientific output. Objective: To analyse the scientific output of Benin, according to the Science Citation Index Expanded, in a 46-year period. Methods: We searched for “Benin” in the country/region field of the index and analysed the results with descriptive statistics. Results: We found 4 557 documents, published between 1973 and 2018. They closely match the trends previously found in other small tropical countries: domination of articles over other types of publication like letters and notes; increase in total number of articles published each year; small collaborations in large American and European projects; and a long article lifespan that reflects the relatively slow accumulation of scientific research in tropical regions. Considering the size of the country’s economy, Benin has a good level of scientific productivity. Conclusion: In its scientific activity, Benin is similar to other tropical countries, and would benefit from increased cooperation among local researchers; from less dependence on small participations in international megaprojects, and from opening the door to research in areas of innovation rather than just solving immediate problems.

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“…(Brazil, Russia, India & China), and compared to Egypt? Egypt is included in the study on the basis that it is the second most productive country in Africa in terms of research outputs as measured by publications and patents [13,14].…”

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A patentometric assessment of selected R&D priority areas in South Africa, a comparison with other BRICS countries

Makhoba

Pouris

2019

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This study assessed the inventive activity through patents registered by South African researchers worldwide using the WIPO database. South Africa is the most prolific producer of patents in the African continent. In this study, the focus was on research priority areas documented in the South African government policy documents rather than the overall inventive output of the country. The research priority areas considered were ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology, climate change, energy and health. Patents in the areas were compared with the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries and Egypt. The comparison was done using the revealed technological advantage sometimes referred to as the specialisation index. It is found that the two African countries have not increased their patent share significantly and are yet to find their specialisation. It was found that while South Africa is doing well in terms of patenting compared to other developing countries, the profile of inventions being patented are not necessarily aligned with the priority areas as documented in government policy.

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Cited by 64 publications

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Sub-Saharan African Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research: A Decade of Development

Sub-Saharan African Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research: A Decade of Development

Research impact and productivity of Benin according to the Science Citation Index Expanded (1973 to 2018)

A patentometric assessment of selected R&D priority areas in South Africa, a comparison with other BRICS countries

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