A bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research in Africa by Guleid, F, Oyando, R, Kabia, E, Mumbi, A, Akech, S, Barasa, E

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented global research effort to build a body of knowledge that can inform mitigation strategies. We carried out a bibliometric analysis to describe the COVID-19 research output in Africa.…”

Moving beyond centre-periphery science: Towards an ecology of knowledge by Marginson, S, Xu, X

“…The fascination with bibliometrics merely reproduces the inside/outside binary: all of those conducting scientometric research and the university rankings based on bibliometric data are complicit in the fiction that the knowledge stored in the commercial repositories of Web of Science and Scopus is all that needs to be known. …”

Moving beyond centre-periphery science: towards an ecology of knowledge by Marginson, S, Xu, X

“…The fascination with bibliometrics merely reproduces the inside/outside binary: all of those conducting scientometric research and the university rankings based on bibliometric data are complicit in the fiction that the knowledge stored in the commercial repositories of Web of Science and Scopus is all that needs to be known. …”

A bird's eye view of worldwide university science by Marginson, S

“…The last three decades have seen the evolution of a networked global science system, sustained by sharing and collaboration and codified by journal publishing and bibliometric inclusion/exclusion, that has come to play the leading epistemic role in the natural science-based disciplines. …”

Patterns and dynamics in the international research collaborations: a case of China-UK collaboration ties in education studies by Kexin, Y

“…An explanatory sequential mixed methods design is implemented. Bibliometric data is collected from Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) from 2001 to 2020 and qualitative data is based on semi-structured interviews with eight China and UK based researchers engaged in collaborative research. …”