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COVID-19 research in Africa: output, collaboration and leadership

How much COVID-19 research African scientists led, and with whom they worked.

Correlation matrix between world regions, with African sub-regions in rows and columns — Correlations between world regions, with Africa's sub-regions broken out. Figure from Mbogning Fonkou et al., IJERPH (2021), CC BY 4.0.

Problem

It was unclear how much COVID-19 research African scientists led, and with whom.

Approach

Searched Web of Science, PubMed and African Journals Online, screened and de-duplicated records, and measured authorship and collaboration.

Result

First-author article in IJERPH (2021), with the full dataset shared openly.

My role

First author: search strategy, screening, bibliometric analysis and writing.

Outputs

Peer-reviewed article; figures and collaboration analysis

Methods and tools

Scientific metadata
bibliometrics
network analysis

Skills

Science mapping
equity analysis
scientific writing