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Research Productivity and Scholarly Impact of Forestry Researchers at Sokoine University of Agriculture

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dc.contributor.author Sife, Alfred S.
dc.contributor.author Benard, R.
dc.contributor.author Ernest, E.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-22T10:16:37Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-22T10:16:37Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.identifier.citation Sife, A.S., Benard, R. & Ernest, E. (2013). Research Productivity and Scholarly Impact of Forestry Researchers at Sokoine University of Agriculture: A Bibliometric Analysis. JCEE, Vol. 4 :2 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/553
dc.description A full text article from Library, Information Sciences and Knowledge Economy en_US
dc.description.abstract A bibliometric analysis was conducted to understand the research productivity and scholarly impact of forestry researchers at Sokoine University of Agriculture for the period of 1998 to 2013. Data were obtained using the Publish or Perish software that uses Google Scholar to retrieve scholars’ publications, citations and related metrics. A total of 1031 publications were recorded for all forestry researchers, giving an average of 64.4 publications per year and an annual growth rate of 6.3%. The year 2008 had the most (12.7%) publications followed by 2007 with 9% of all publications while the year 2003 had the lowest (3.2%) number of publications. Majority (88.1%) of the publications were multiple-authored and the degree of collaboration was 0.88. The top ten ranked forestry researchers contributed nearly half (46.3%) of all publications; hence corroborating to the Lotka’s Law of scientific productivity. However, these top ten scholars showed considerable variation since no single scholar maintained the same rank in all nine metrics. These findings suggest that many factors should be considered in combination when evaluating research performance. The study findings call for a paradigm shift for scholars to focus on the scholarly impacts of their publications. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher JCEE en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 4;2
dc.subject Research en_US
dc.subject Research productivity en_US
dc.subject Scholarly en_US
dc.subject Scholarly impact en_US
dc.subject Forestry en_US
dc.subject Bibliometrics en_US
dc.title Research Productivity and Scholarly Impact of Forestry Researchers at Sokoine University of Agriculture en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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