Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha

TL;DR: It is found that knowledge production through collaborative research among sub-Saharan African countries is minimal and contributes only a small percentage when compared to collaboration between sub- Saharan African countries and their foreign counterparts.

TL;DR: The results reveal that the research visibility of academic librarians was insignificant; that publication of research findings over the period was minimal; that publications from university librarian and directors were also minimal; and that most academic librarian preferred ...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the representation of 10 purposefully selected LIS researchers in South Africa in Google Scholar (GS), Thomson Scientific's (herein referred to as ISI - Institute for Scientific Information) citation indexes, and Elsevier's Scopus, in order to determine whether or not Google Scholar is an alternative tool for evaluating research in developing countries, particularly those situated in Sub-Saharan Africa.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed and demonstrated the application of informetrics by use of descriptive bibliometrics to determine the status and trend of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) development from 1990-2002.

TL;DR: According to the Association for Progressive Communications [APC] (n.d.), Zimbabwe (90%) tops the list of countries with high literacy rates in Africa followed by Mauritius (85.3%), Equatorial Guinea (84.8), Namibia (83.3), South Africa (82.4%), Libya (81.7%), and Swaziland (80.9%).