South African research in selected scientific areas: Status 1981-2000

Ingwersen, Peter; Jacobs, Daisy

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“…They refused to accept South African contributions and avoided South African participants in conferences (Nordkvelle 1990). It was a 'closed off' period, from the mid 1980s to 1994, for South Africa, causing the weakening of the publication productivity of South African scientists (Jacobs and Ingwersen 2000;Ingwersen and Jacobs 2004). Next came economic sanctions and the economic recession that caused unavoidable cutbacks on the expenditure of universities and research councils.…”

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Science and scientific collaboration in South Africa: apartheid and after

Sooryamoorthy

2009

Scientometrics

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Scientific collaboration is growing in its importance; more so in Asian and African countries. This paper examines the scenario of science and scientific collaboration in South Africa which had passed through the colonial and apartheid regimes before it became a democracy in 1994. South African science under distinct political periods moved through some difficult periods but it did not badly affect the progress and direction of South African science. Science and scientific collaboration continued to grow under its major political phases amidst serious challenges. Despite internal conflict and boycott by the international scientific community, South Africa could move onto a stable and steady path of growth in science and collaboration under apartheid which is being carried on in the new South Africa. Collaborative research is encouraged at various levels of knowledge production and in science. The importance science and scientific development is gaining in today's South Africa is remarkable.

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Science and scientific collaboration in South Africa: apartheid and after

Sooryamoorthy

2009

Scientometrics

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“…The study by ARVANITIS et al (2000), who used the French PASCAL bibliographic database as a source, is one of the few cases where African countries are systematically compared. Other scientometric studies, such as JACOBS & INGWERSEN (2000), POURIS (2003;) or INGWERSEN & JACOBS (2004, provide a welcome measure of quantitative detail on academic research in South Africa, but their scope and coverage of the research literature (category I only) is too constrained to serve as a broad framework for comprehensive cross-country analyses at the African level.…”

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

2007

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“…However, the precarious situation of science in South Africa is demonstrated by the fact that the national best disciplines (Plant and Animal Science, Geosciences), in terms of the number of papers, are globally ranked 18 and 20 (JEENAH and POURIS, 2008). Although South Africa is still the dominant producer in Africa, its limnological growth fell even behind some other African countries in the last decade (see INGWERSEN and JACOBS, 2004;TIJSSEN, 2007). …”

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Publications of BRIC‐ and Outreach Countries in International Journals on Limnology

Walz

2010

International Review of Hydrobiology

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Pollution, overexploitation and climate warming endanger the freshwater ecosystems in many regions, particularly in developing countries. This publication asks if at least the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) group and the Outreach countries (in addition South Africa and Mexico), have the scientific capacity in limnology to mitigate this development. For this reason the scientific output was analyzed between 1999 and 2007. With a share of 5.0% of all limnological papers in 2007 world wide the P.R. China (Peoples Republic of China) produced the largest numbers of publications, followed by Brazil and Mexico. For comparison, this year Germany's share was 5.8% and the USA had the highest share with 33.9%. The growth rate was also highest for the P. R. China and Brazil. Based on the journal impact factors, China's quality of papers was best followed by South Africa and Russia. Brazil was strong in fish biology, whereas China published the most papers in all other disciplines. IntroductionProgressive pollution, overexploitation (PEARCE, 2006) and predicted negative consequences of climate warming on water (ARNELL, 2004; IPCC, 2008) are serious concerns for all freshwater ecosystems in the world, but in particular for those in many developing countries. The quality and quantity of fresh water, as the critical medium for all kinds of living processes, is profoundly endangered (WETZEL, 1992). The decline of biodiversity in freshwater is more dramatic than in most terrestrial ecosystems (DUDGEON, 2006). For this reason the United Nations (UN, 2005) declared the years 2005-2015 as an International Decade for Action "Water of Life". The principal aims are to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 and to stop unsustainable exploitation of water resources. This aim seems overly optimistic because most countries must still make huge and rapid political and scientific investments to tr y to sustain and recover the basic life processes for billions of people.As an essential prerequisite for such measures, all monetary and engineering investments in developing countries have to be based on sound science. Scientific knowledge in limnology is essential to process further investments properly. The situation does not seem encouraging. Although international collaboration in limnology is higher than in many other fields of science (RESH and YAMAMOTO, 1994), present collaborations and technology transfers from the first to the third world are still inadequate and do not lead to capacity building in third world countries (WISHART and DAVIES, 1998). On the other hand, some of the developing countries were economically most successful in the last decade and it may no longer be Publications of BRIC-and Outreach Countries 299

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South African research in selected scientific areas: Status 1981-2000

Cited by 33 publications

References 6 publications

Science and scientific collaboration in South Africa: apartheid and after

Science and scientific collaboration in South Africa: apartheid and after

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

Publications of BRIC‐ and Outreach Countries in International Journals on Limnology

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