Participation of ‘international national organisations’ in Africa’s research: a bibliometric study of agriculture and health in Zimbabwe

Ngwenya, Similo; Boshoff, Nelius

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03480-y

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“…The ‘ZW INO sector only’ indicates authors who published all their articles by specifying a so-called ‘international national organisation’ (INO) as their author address. An INO is an international organisation that has its headquarters outside Zimbabwe, but which publishes articles using the address of its Zimbabwean subsidiary (Ngwenya & Boshoff, 2020). Moreover, any Zimbabwean author, in theory, could be affiliated with one or more Zimbabwean sectors.…”

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Agricultural Research in Zimbabwe: An Author-level Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Outlets and Research Collaboration

Boshoff

Ngwenya

2022

Science, Technology and Society

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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.

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Agricultural Research in Zimbabwe: An Author-level Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Outlets and Research Collaboration

Boshoff

Ngwenya

2022

Science, Technology and Society

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“…The different tools used were Excel and SciMAT. To create the network maps, VOSviewer was selected, which is widely used in this kind of study [67]. Lastly, in order to extract the main trends in the research, a keyword analysis was conducted [68].…”

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Overview of Research on Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Countries. The Case of Mexico

Ochoa-Noriega¹,

Velasco-Muñoz²,

Aznar-Sánchez³

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One of the principal challenges faced by Mexican agriculture is the development of management models that are able to increase production while respecting the environment and generating wealth for society as a whole. In recent years, the number of studies analysing the sustainability of Mexican agriculture has grown significantly. The purpose of this study is to analyse the evolution of the research on the sustainability of agriculture in Mexico. For this purpose, a review and bibliometric analysis of a sample of 867 articles was carried out. The results reveal that the research has focused on the development of sustainable agricultural models in vulnerable rural areas, the sustainable exploitation of agroforestry systems, the development of energy crops for different uses, water resource management and land uses and their changes, conservation farming and climate change. Although research focused on sustainability is still in its early stages, it has become a priority field. A need to promote research from the economic and social disciplines may be observed, together with holistic projects that include the three pillars of sustainability (social, economic and environmental). This study could be useful to researchers in this field as it identifies the recent trends and principal agents that drive knowledge.

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“…However, by 2003, most donors had suspended their operations due to political instability ( Besada & Moyo, 2008 ), with many researchers seeking employment in neighbouring South Africa. Despite these challenges, some researchers in Zimbabwe continued to engage in international collaboration (see Ngwenya & Boshoff, 2020 ). Considering the country's generally strained relations with the international community, particularly western countries, a comparison of the experiences of researchers in Zimbabwe in different categories of collaboration is relevant.…”

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Self-interestedness in Research Collaboration and its Association with Career Stage and Nature of Collaboration: A Survey of Zimbabwean Researchers

Ngwenya,

Boshoff

2023

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

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During collaboration in research, it may happen that some researchers become involved in behaviours that reflect so-called ‘self-interestedness’, which means that they pursue their personal interest or benefit without considering others. This study examined how researchers in Zimbabwe perceive instances of self-interestedness among research collaborators, and how these perceptions differ according to their career stage and the nature of collaboration. An online survey of researchers in Zimbabwe was conducted to gather information about six instances of self-interestedness among research collaborators. The results show that Zimbabwean researchers involved exclusively in national collaboration reported greater degrees of collaborator self-interestedness than Zimbabwean researchers involved in international collaboration. However, early-career researchers and established researchers did not differ significantly regarding their experiences of collaborator self-interestedness. Measures aimed at capacitating research organisations and research teams in developing countries in the African context, to counter collaborator self-interestedness, are recommended.

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Participation of ‘international national organisations’ in Africa’s research: a bibliometric study of agriculture and health in Zimbabwe

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Agricultural Research in Zimbabwe: An Author-level Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Outlets and Research Collaboration

Agricultural Research in Zimbabwe: An Author-level Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Outlets and Research Collaboration

Overview of Research on Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Countries. The Case of Mexico

Self-interestedness in Research Collaboration and its Association with Career Stage and Nature of Collaboration: A Survey of Zimbabwean Researchers

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