The high output of articles in SA-specific journals, and parallels between SA and human medical practice (ie, residency/specialty training), make SA specialization a plausible explanation.
The oil price seems unlikely to keep going up and there are ominous signs that Russia is having serious problems sustaining its oil output (see article).
Their collective GDP stagnated in the second quarter: Italy fell back into outright recession, French GDP was flat and even mighty Germany saw an unexpectedly large fall in output (see article).
That may cause a central bank temporarily to under- or over-shoot its inflation target, but as a persuasive new report argues, by taking more account of asset prices, central banks can reduce the long-term variability of inflation and output (see article).This injunction may well apply to the ECB which, as the euro has fallen, has been given two different pieces of advice.
In the REF evaluation, individual research faculty members had to list up to four of their best research outputs—journal articles, authored books, patents, software, etc. to their departments, for submission by their university.
We also have the agreement of Springer to increase our output to 30 articles per year.
The results indicate that annual output of scientific articles rocketed during the past decade (2003 2012).
The gap is reduced once we control for researchers' characteristics, such as age and academic rank, but is almost unaffected by the characteristics of the research output (monographs, journal articles, book chapters, etc)., co-authorships, international collaborations.
Overall, there was a significant correlation (R = 0.70) between the level of financial support and the volume of scientific output (number of articles), but there was no correlation (R = 0.03) between the level of funding and the impact of scientific output (proportion of top 10%% articles).
As with the Web of Science analysis, we observed a high correlation (R = 0.96) between the SIGAPS score and the volume of scientific output (number of articles) for CHUs, but there was no correlation (R = 0.19) between the SIGAPS score and the proportion of top 10%% articles.
Similarly, South Africa ranked first in article output in SA and EQ journals, whereas Nigeria led in articles in FA journals.
