How relevant are local scholarly journals in global science? A case study of South Africa

Africa’s contribution to the worldwide research literature: New analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators

“…This outcome could indicate that important segments of South Africa science are not adequately represented in the CI-databases. This particular finding is discussed in-depth MOUTON et al (2006) andTIJSSEN et al (2007).…”

What makes a journal international? A case study using conservation biology journals

“…Meffe's (2006) suggestion of the 'internationally recognised regional journal'). There is also quantitative evidence from citation analyses that some regional journals achieve international recognition whereas others remain locally focused (Tijssen et al 2006). We believe that such categories are more useful than ranking journals according to a single (Watson et al 2007) or composite index (Buela-Casal et al 2007, the IIJ in this paper).…”

Inequalities in scholarly knowledge: Public value failures and their impact on global science

“…In general, these articles find that there is very little collaboration between countries within Africa and that there are major hubs for African research, like South Africa, Egypt, and Nigeria, that are the most influential research collaborators (Confraria and Godinho 2015;Narvaéz-Berthelemot et al 2002, Tijssen et al 2006Toivanen and Ponomariov 2011). More recently, a study analysed the authorship patterns within the top ten development journals and it found that most of the research was done by authors in high income countries and that only between 5% and 20% of the studies in the journals were actually done by scholars in LEACs (Cummings 2014).…”