caa a22 4500 445348356 CHVBK 20180317142836.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-010-0330-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-010-0330-5 Knowledge production through collaborative research in sub-Saharan Africa: how much do countries contribute to each other's knowledge output and citation impact? [Elektronische Daten] [Omwoyo Onyancha, Jan Maluleka] This paper examines co-authorship of research articles in Thomson Reuters citation indexes in order to assess knowledge co-production in selected sub-Saharan African countries. Two indicators, namely publications and citations, were analysed to establish the patterns of knowledge co-production and its scientific impact, respectively. The study 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. Similarly, the scientific impact of international collaboration was higher than that of continental collaboration. Countries belonging to the same geographic region contributed to each other's knowledge production more frequently than they did to the countries outside their region. It is recommended that, for knowledge co-production in sub-Saharan Africa to improve, various measures such as encouraging student and staff exchange, hosting more regional conferences and encouraging research networks need to be put in place. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Research collaboration nationallicence Knowledge production nationallicence Sub-Saharan Africa nationallicence Citation impact nationallicence Onyancha Omwoyo Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, Unisa, 392, 0003, Pretoria, South Africa aut Maluleka Jan Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, Unisa, 392, 0003, Pretoria, South Africa aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/2(2011-05-01), 315-336 0138-9130 87:2<315 2011 87 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0330-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0330-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Onyancha Omwoyo Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, Unisa, 392, 0003, Pretoria, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maluleka Jan Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, Unisa, 392, 0003, Pretoria, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/2(2011-05-01), 315-336 0138-9130 87:2<315 2011 87 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer