Sub-Saharan African Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research: A Decade of Development by Andreas Blom George Lan & Mariam Adil

Author:Andreas Blom, George Lan & Mariam Adil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The World Bank

CHAPTER 3

Research Collaboration

Introduction

This chapter focuses on how various types of collaboration affect citation impact. It examines the levels of extra-regional (that is, international) and intraregional collaboration, the corresponding impact of research resulting from such collaborations, and the top institutional collaborators with each region.

Key Findings

• Extra-Regional Collaboration: 42 percent–79 percent

In 2012, the dominant share of Sub-Saharan Africa research is a result of international collaboration (42 percent, 68 percent, and 79 percent of total research for West and Central, East, and Southern Africa, respectively.

• Cross-Sector Collaboration: 1 percent–2.4 percent

Academic–corporate collaborations comprise between 1 percent and 2.4 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa’s total research output from 2003 to 2012.

• Collaboration Citation Impact: 3.23–3.82

Extra-regional (that is, international) collaborations for Sub-Saharan Africa regions were between 3.23 and 3.82 times as impactful as those respective regions’ institutional collaborations.

• Interregional Collaboration: 0.9 percent–2.9 percent

Inter-African collaboration (without any South-African or international collaborator) comprises 2 percent of all East African research, 0.9 percent of West and Central Africa, and 2.9 percent of Southern Africa.

• Top Academic Collaborator: Harvard

Harvard University ranked among the top 10 academic collaborators for the three Sub-Saharan Africa regions.

• Cross-Sector Collaboration Citation Impact: 2.81–6.09

In 2012, West and Central Africa’s academic–corporate collaborations received more than six times as many relative citations as the average article. Southern and East Africa’s academic–corporate collaborations also achieved high multipliers of 3.71 and 2.81, respectively.

• Top Corporate Collaborators: GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis

From 2003–12, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis were among the top three corporate collaborators for the three Sub-Saharan Africa regions.

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