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An assessment of the impact and visibility of South African journals

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  • Anastassios Pouris

    (ITI, Engineering II Building, Main Campus, University of Pretoria)

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Summary Recognizing the critical role played by science and technology in the development of fuel cells, this article aims to characterize the evolution of the S&T knowledge bases of fuel cells over the nineties, using data on patents and scientific publications. The field of fuel cells is particularly heterogeneous. It covers diverse sub-fields that are marked by idiosyncratic characteristics (e.g. actors, demand, and input) and different historical developments. Although this heterogeneity of the field of fuel cells is reflected in the dynamics of S&T knowledge generation within and across its sub-fields too, this article shows that it does not entail the absence of cognitive interrelations between their S&T knowledge bases. For that purpose, the article uses “simultaneous mapping' approach of their S&T knowledge bases by means of textual analysis.

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  • Anastassios Pouris, 2005. "An assessment of the impact and visibility of South African journals," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 62(2), pages 213-222, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:62:y:2005:i:2:d:10.1007_s11192-005-0015-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-0015-7
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    1. D’Este, Pablo & Robinson-García, Nicolás, 2023. "Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(2).
    2. Toluwase Victor Asubiaro & Sodiq Onaolapo, 2023. "A comparative study of the coverage of African journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 74(7), pages 745-758, July.
    3. Anastassios Pouris, 2010. "A scientometric assessment of the Southern Africa Development Community: science in the tip of Africa," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 85(1), pages 145-154, October.
    4. Mee-Jean Kim, 2010. "Visibility of Korean science journals: an analysis between citation measures among international composition of editorial board and foreign authorship," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 84(2), pages 505-522, August.
    5. Robert J. W. Tijssen, 2007. "Africa’s contribution to the worldwide research literature: New analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 71(2), pages 303-327, May.
    6. Dario Sambunjak & Ana Ivaniš & Ana Marušić & Matko Marušić, 2008. "Representation of journals from five neighboring European countries in the Journal Citation Reports," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 76(2), pages 261-271, August.

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