#bibliometric

Thomson Reuters' 2010 report on scientific output of Africa as indexed by WoS. Only goes as far as publication counts and collaboration clusters.

In the future, studies might focus more specifically on the kind of research published in SSA, such as clinical versus epidemiological; the nature of the readership of SSA publications; and the ways priorities are set by SSA journal editorial boards. Finally Sub-Saharan African universities and research institutions might contemplate altering their practice of giving academic credit exclusively for publications in high-profile international journals and might consider giving equal weight to publishing in national journals that have been indexed in international, credible databases such as MEDLINE.

VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. These networks may for instance include journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling, or co-authorship relations. VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature. - See more at: http://ift.tt/1nqxzf6

Updated annually, the 2013 SNIP and SJR journal metrics are now available in the Scopus database via the Journal Analyzer. The Journal Analyzer allows you to select up to 10 journals for comparison; the results are uploaded into graphs, making it easy to see how journals perform relative to each other. The SNIP, SJR and now IPP (Impact per Publication) values can also be viewed per journal in the 'Browse sources' tab or via the publicly available title list.