Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1177/09717218221102602
S. Seth
This article offers a description of and engagement with a number of arguments that have been framed around the notion of ‘ontological symmetry’ or the promotion of a ‘pluriverse’ over a universe. I seek, first, to explain what problems scholars are seeking to solve with these interventions; second, I point to certain missteps that have been made as part of these solutions, particularly in relation to human-centredness in conceptions of practice-based ontologies; and third, I draw attention to the dangers involved in assuming that the pluriverse will not be governed by power imbalances similar to those found in a one-world world.
{"title":"Pluriversal Problems, Revolutionary Remedies","authors":"S. Seth","doi":"10.1177/09717218221102602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221102602","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a description of and engagement with a number of arguments that have been framed around the notion of ‘ontological symmetry’ or the promotion of a ‘pluriverse’ over a universe. I seek, first, to explain what problems scholars are seeking to solve with these interventions; second, I point to certain missteps that have been made as part of these solutions, particularly in relation to human-centredness in conceptions of practice-based ontologies; and third, I draw attention to the dangers involved in assuming that the pluriverse will not be governed by power imbalances similar to those found in a one-world world.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"156 1","pages":"22 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74817171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1177/09717218221102614
Fa‐ti Fan
This essay reflects on the theories and methods of global science and technology studies (STS). It first examines postcolonial STS and points out certain problems and limitations of the approach. It then discusses a few alternative approaches that have benefited from postcolonial STS, and also tries to carve out new directions. Finally, this article uses China and the current pandemic as a case study to explore certain critical questions for a new global STS.
{"title":"From Postcolonial to Post-COVID: Midnight Thoughts While Waiting for the Dawn","authors":"Fa‐ti Fan","doi":"10.1177/09717218221102614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221102614","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reflects on the theories and methods of global science and technology studies (STS). It first examines postcolonial STS and points out certain problems and limitations of the approach. It then discusses a few alternative approaches that have benefited from postcolonial STS, and also tries to carve out new directions. Finally, this article uses China and the current pandemic as a case study to explore certain critical questions for a new global STS.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"93 1","pages":"30 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80928291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-11DOI: 10.1177/09717218221102578
Banu Subramaniam
Historians of science have amply demonstrated that the natural sciences were shaped by the history of colonialism. In this short essay, I explore the field of botany. Drawing on the ‘pressed’ plant of the herbarium sheet, I explore the possibilities of decolonising botany. I am inspired by Chela Sandoval’s Methodology of the Oppressed to develop and lay out counter-colonial methodologies. I argue that we need to move to a different imagination of the sciences—interdisciplinary and adisciplinary sciences—if we are serious about reckoning with colonial histories in science.
科学史家已经充分证明，自然科学是由殖民主义历史塑造的。在这篇短文中，我探讨了植物学领域。利用植物标本馆的“压制”植物，我探索了非殖民化植物学的可能性。切拉·桑多瓦尔(Chela Sandoval)的《被压迫者方法论》(Methodology of the被压迫者)给了我启发，让我发展并阐述了反殖民方法论。我认为，如果我们认真对待科学中的殖民历史，我们需要转向一种不同的科学想象——跨学科和非学科科学。
{"title":"Methodologies for the Pressed: Cartographies for Adisciplinary Sciences","authors":"Banu Subramaniam","doi":"10.1177/09717218221102578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221102578","url":null,"abstract":"Historians of science have amply demonstrated that the natural sciences were shaped by the history of colonialism. In this short essay, I explore the field of botany. Drawing on the ‘pressed’ plant of the herbarium sheet, I explore the possibilities of decolonising botany. I am inspired by Chela Sandoval’s Methodology of the Oppressed to develop and lay out counter-colonial methodologies. I argue that we need to move to a different imagination of the sciences—interdisciplinary and adisciplinary sciences—if we are serious about reckoning with colonial histories in science.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"115 1","pages":"68 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80304315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078235
R. Arvanitis, J. Mouton, Adeline Néron
This article begins with an overview of recent and current trends in scientific output in Africa. The focus is on how global dynamics and foreign funding support are directly affecting structural aspects of scientific research. It examines the fundamental role of foreign programmes and new forms of academic cooperation in African science. This includes a discussion of multilateral or transcontinental agreements and local universities, the role of private philanthropy and public institutions, trends in domestic expenditure on research and innovation, and how these are linked to the recent positive upturn in scientific production in many African countries.
{"title":"Funding Research in Africa: Landscapes of Re-institutionalisation","authors":"R. Arvanitis, J. Mouton, Adeline Néron","doi":"10.1177/09717218221078235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221078235","url":null,"abstract":"This article begins with an overview of recent and current trends in scientific output in Africa. The focus is on how global dynamics and foreign funding support are directly affecting structural aspects of scientific research. It examines the fundamental role of foreign programmes and new forms of academic cooperation in African science. This includes a discussion of multilateral or transcontinental agreements and local universities, the role of private philanthropy and public institutions, trends in domestic expenditure on research and innovation, and how these are linked to the recent positive upturn in scientific production in many African countries.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"113 1","pages":"351 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79729774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078231
Sanaa Zebakh, A. Rhouma, R. Arvanitis, M. Sadiki
This article reports on the profiles of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in the three Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, through their research policies, human resources, governance, funding and scientific production. A bibliometric study was carried out for the three selected countries based on the Scopus database covering the period between 2005 and 2019. The research shows the distinctive case of Tunisian growth of scientific production compared to the other two countries; it also stresses the universities’ emergence as a major research actor, thus challenging the predominance of the public mission-oriented institutions dedicated to agriculture and veterinary sciences. Finally, it indicates significant differences between the three countries concerning governance and funding, and human resources. Overall, the NARS in the three countries are still very fragile, and a need for significant changes in the research policy making is certainly required to overcome these shortcomings.
{"title":"Mapping the Agricultural Research Systems in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia)","authors":"Sanaa Zebakh, A. Rhouma, R. Arvanitis, M. Sadiki","doi":"10.1177/09717218221078231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221078231","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on the profiles of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in the three Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, through their research policies, human resources, governance, funding and scientific production. A bibliometric study was carried out for the three selected countries based on the Scopus database covering the period between 2005 and 2019. The research shows the distinctive case of Tunisian growth of scientific production compared to the other two countries; it also stresses the universities’ emergence as a major research actor, thus challenging the predominance of the public mission-oriented institutions dedicated to agriculture and veterinary sciences. Finally, it indicates significant differences between the three countries concerning governance and funding, and human resources. Overall, the NARS in the three countries are still very fragile, and a need for significant changes in the research policy making is certainly required to overcome these shortcomings.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"429 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85597732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-27DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078540
M. Kahn
‘Science’ has for long been advocated as a key driver of Africa’s post-independence modernisation. This project featured strongly in the Organization of African Unit Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 that called for governments to mobilise 1% of GDP towards building their scientific and technological capabilities. The 1% goal was duly re-affirmed at the African Union Ministers’ Conference of 2003, in Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action 2005, and in the 2014 Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa. The contribution presents a high-level assessment of the extent to which these various efforts are revealed in the present continent-wide status of science, technology and innovation (STI). To this end, a high-level appraisal of STI inputs, focus and outputs is assembled. In so doing, the limitations of data and STI indicators must be acknowledged. While there are signs of progress, STI policy has greater rhetorical than operational outcome, raising concerns for African states’ capability to attain the SDGs and shape their participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
{"title":"The Status of Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa","authors":"M. Kahn","doi":"10.1177/09717218221078540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221078540","url":null,"abstract":"‘Science’ has for long been advocated as a key driver of Africa’s post-independence modernisation. This project featured strongly in the Organization of African Unit Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 that called for governments to mobilise 1% of GDP towards building their scientific and technological capabilities. The 1% goal was duly re-affirmed at the African Union Ministers’ Conference of 2003, in Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action 2005, and in the 2014 Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa. The contribution presents a high-level assessment of the extent to which these various efforts are revealed in the present continent-wide status of science, technology and innovation (STI). To this end, a high-level appraisal of STI inputs, focus and outputs is assembled. In so doing, the limitations of data and STI indicators must be acknowledged. While there are signs of progress, STI policy has greater rhetorical than operational outcome, raising concerns for African states’ capability to attain the SDGs and shape their participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"362 1","pages":"327 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83190188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078229
Agnes Lutomiah, J. Blanckenberg, Stefan Skupien
Kenya’s government has identified science, technology and innovation as key for its national development plan and has started to refurbish its research environment. In this article, we use the world system approach to discuss the largely peripheral relations of Kenya’s science systems to the global science system and to identify indications for Kenya becoming a semi-peripheral scientific player itself within Eastern Africa. While the publications are dominantly oriented towards the Global North and while foreign sources fund nearly half of Kenya’s research and development (R&D), the country starts to become an important country for its neighbours. However, Kenya is still facing an unstable system of integrating significantly more graduate students. These are seen as essential to provide for a sustainable knowledge base that is required for the country’s socio-economic goals. We point to the lack of robust and recent data on R&D in Kenya as an impediment to evidence-based policy-making.
{"title":"In Between Centre and Periphery: Kenya as a Key Scientific Nation in East Africa?","authors":"Agnes Lutomiah, J. Blanckenberg, Stefan Skupien","doi":"10.1177/09717218221078229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221078229","url":null,"abstract":"Kenya’s government has identified science, technology and innovation as key for its national development plan and has started to refurbish its research environment. In this article, we use the world system approach to discuss the largely peripheral relations of Kenya’s science systems to the global science system and to identify indications for Kenya becoming a semi-peripheral scientific player itself within Eastern Africa. While the publications are dominantly oriented towards the Global North and while foreign sources fund nearly half of Kenya’s research and development (R&D), the country starts to become an important country for its neighbours. However, Kenya is still facing an unstable system of integrating significantly more graduate students. These are seen as essential to provide for a sustainable knowledge base that is required for the country’s socio-economic goals. We point to the lack of robust and recent data on R&D in Kenya as an impediment to evidence-based policy-making.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"3 1","pages":"388 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89975171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078548
J. Gaillard, J. Mouton
This STS Special Issue revisits the question of the State of Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) in Africa today and its evolution since the publication of the First STS Special Issue on the subject in 2003 ( Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 8, issue 2, 2003). The six contributions to this issue address the ‘state’ of Africa STI in different, but complementary, ways. Three papers (Michael Kahn; Rigas Arvanitis, Johann Mouton and Adeline Néron; and Robert Tijssen and Jos Winnink) take on this challenge mostly through quantitative approaches using indicator-based evidence through ‘continent’ wide analyses. The three other papers (Agnes Lutomiah, Jaco P. Blanckenberg and Stefan Skupien; Nelius Boshoff and Similo Ngwenya; and Sanaa Zebakh et al.) present their analyses through country (Kenya and Zimbabwe) or regional (three Maghreb countries) case studies. But the individual papers in the issue are not only differentiated in terms of the quantitative–qualitative spec-trum, substantive issues around trends in the funding of science in Africa, patterns and trends in research collaboration and changes in the role of the institutions of scientific research, and especially the growing importance of (research) universities in the production of knowledge on the continent. The individual papers are rich in evidence and data despite the continuing constraints on the availability of accurate and robust STI data about the majority of the science systems in Africa. But, in addition to presenting and discussing on the implications of the evidence from recent bibliometric and scientometric data, some papers also venture into more theoretical and conceptual Tijssen proposes a distinction between global and the of research the the the colleagues
本期STS特刊回顾了当今非洲的科学、技术和创新(STI)状况及其自2003年第一期STS特刊(《科学、技术与社会》，第8卷，第2期，2003年)出版以来的演变。对这一问题的六份贡献以不同但互补的方式解决了非洲STI的“状况”。三篇论文(迈克尔·卡恩;里加斯·阿瓦尼蒂斯，约翰·穆顿和艾德琳·纳姆萨伦;(Robert Tijssen和Jos Winnink)主要通过定量方法，通过“大陆”范围的分析，使用基于指标的证据来应对这一挑战。其他三篇论文(Agnes Lutomiah, Jaco P. Blanckenberg和Stefan Skupien;内利乌斯·博肖夫和西罗·恩格尼亚;和Sanaa Zebakh等人)通过国家(肯尼亚和津巴布韦)或区域(三个马格里布国家)案例研究提出了他们的分析。但是，这期杂志中的个别论文不仅在定量-定性范围、围绕非洲科学资助趋势的实质性问题、研究合作的模式和趋势以及科学研究机构角色的变化、特别是(研究型)大学在非洲大陆知识生产中日益增长的重要性方面有所区别。尽管关于非洲大多数科学系统的准确和可靠的科学与创新数据的可获得性仍然受到限制，但这些论文的证据和数据丰富。但是，除了展示和讨论来自最近文献计量学和科学计量学数据的证据的含义之外，一些论文还冒险进入更理论化和概念化的领域，Tijssen建议将全球研究和同事们的研究区分开来
{"title":"The State of Science, Technology and Innovation in Africa: Trends, Progress and Limitations","authors":"J. Gaillard, J. Mouton","doi":"10.1177/09717218221078548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221078548","url":null,"abstract":"This STS Special Issue revisits the question of the State of Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) in Africa today and its evolution since the publication of the First STS Special Issue on the subject in 2003 ( Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 8, issue 2, 2003). The six contributions to this issue address the ‘state’ of Africa STI in different, but complementary, ways. Three papers (Michael Kahn; Rigas Arvanitis, Johann Mouton and Adeline Néron; and Robert Tijssen and Jos Winnink) take on this challenge mostly through quantitative approaches using indicator-based evidence through ‘continent’ wide analyses. The three other papers (Agnes Lutomiah, Jaco P. Blanckenberg and Stefan Skupien; Nelius Boshoff and Similo Ngwenya; and Sanaa Zebakh et al.) present their analyses through country (Kenya and Zimbabwe) or regional (three Maghreb countries) case studies. But the individual papers in the issue are not only differentiated in terms of the quantitative–qualitative spec-trum, substantive issues around trends in the funding of science in Africa, patterns and trends in research collaboration and changes in the role of the institutions of scientific research, and especially the growing importance of (research) universities in the production of knowledge on the continent. The individual papers are rich in evidence and data despite the continuing constraints on the availability of accurate and robust STI data about the majority of the science systems in Africa. But, in addition to presenting and discussing on the implications of the evidence from recent bibliometric and scientometric data, some papers also venture into more theoretical and conceptual Tijssen proposes a distinction between global and the of research the the the colleagues","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"20 3","pages":"318 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72371756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-19DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078236
R. Tijssen, J. Winnink
The concept ‘research excellence’ remains ill-defined in performance assessment and science funding frameworks. This article introduces a framework that distinguishes ‘global excellence’ and ‘local excellence’, which enable a better understanding of ‘research excellence’ in African science. Where global excellence is primarily determined by acknowledged visibility and partially measurable reputation within the (inter)national scholarly community, its local counterpart relates to utilisation of knowledge and know-how among non-scholarly users and communities. Our empirical study of global excellence, based on a citation impact analysis of ‘basic research’ publications during the past 15 years, with one or more African-based authors, shows a large degree of dependence on and cooperation with non-African international partners. More detailed analysis of research-active universities in the African Research Universities Alliance also highlights their large dependency on international resources and funding in their highly cited ‘globally excellent’ research. Our analysis of local excellence focusses on the research objectives of the centres of excellence at universities in sub-Saharan Africa, showing a mix of local and global components. The notion of local excellence is in need of appropriate definitions and further operationalisation. The distinction between global and local excellence, within science funding and research assessment frameworks, offers a more comprehensive view and better understanding of high-end research performance of universities in Africa. Developing quality criteria and performance indicators of local excellence may incentivise researchers to contribute to socio-economic development and innovation.
{"title":"Global and Local Research Excellence in Africa: New Perspectives on Performance Assessment and Funding","authors":"R. Tijssen, J. Winnink","doi":"10.1177/09717218221078236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221078236","url":null,"abstract":"The concept ‘research excellence’ remains ill-defined in performance assessment and science funding frameworks. This article introduces a framework that distinguishes ‘global excellence’ and ‘local excellence’, which enable a better understanding of ‘research excellence’ in African science. Where global excellence is primarily determined by acknowledged visibility and partially measurable reputation within the (inter)national scholarly community, its local counterpart relates to utilisation of knowledge and know-how among non-scholarly users and communities. Our empirical study of global excellence, based on a citation impact analysis of ‘basic research’ publications during the past 15 years, with one or more African-based authors, shows a large degree of dependence on and cooperation with non-African international partners. More detailed analysis of research-active universities in the African Research Universities Alliance also highlights their large dependency on international resources and funding in their highly cited ‘globally excellent’ research. Our analysis of local excellence focusses on the research objectives of the centres of excellence at universities in sub-Saharan Africa, showing a mix of local and global components. The notion of local excellence is in need of appropriate definitions and further operationalisation. The distinction between global and local excellence, within science funding and research assessment frameworks, offers a more comprehensive view and better understanding of high-end research performance of universities in Africa. Developing quality criteria and performance indicators of local excellence may incentivise researchers to contribute to socio-economic development and innovation.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"368 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83020206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-19DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078186
N. Boshoff, Similo Ngwenya
What can be learnt from an application of author-level bibliometrics to the field of agricultural research in Zimbabwe for the period 2012–2016? The study addressed the question by integrating data from three sources: Scopus, the Web of Science and the National Research Database of Zimbabwe. A set of fifteen bibliometric indicators was constructed for 2,873 Zimbabwean authors, of which 248 (9%) were in agricultural sciences and 295 (10%) in multidisciplinary agricultural sciences. The indicators represented three dimensions: volume of article output, scholarly publication outlet and research collaboration. Results are discussed in terms of the Zimbabwean government’s policy for agriculture. Part of the lessons learnt calls for author-level bibliometric studies to connect more closely with the local, regional and global politics of knowledge production.
{"title":"Agricultural Research in Zimbabwe: An Author-level Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Outlets and Research Collaboration","authors":"N. Boshoff, Similo Ngwenya","doi":"10.1177/09717218221078186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09717218221078186","url":null,"abstract":"What can be learnt from an application of author-level bibliometrics to the field of agricultural research in Zimbabwe for the period 2012–2016? The study addressed the question by integrating data from three sources: Scopus, the Web of Science and the National Research Database of Zimbabwe. A set of fifteen bibliometric indicators was constructed for 2,873 Zimbabwean authors, of which 248 (9%) were in agricultural sciences and 295 (10%) in multidisciplinary agricultural sciences. The indicators represented three dimensions: volume of article output, scholarly publication outlet and research collaboration. Results are discussed in terms of the Zimbabwean government’s policy for agriculture. Part of the lessons learnt calls for author-level bibliometric studies to connect more closely with the local, regional and global politics of knowledge production.","PeriodicalId":45432,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology and Society","volume":"5 1","pages":"404 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72710645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：