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- Title
Indigenous Knowledge in Africa: A Bibliometric Analysis of Publishing Patterns.
- Authors
Resenga Maluleka, Jan; Ngulube, Patrick
- Abstract
This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the publication patterns of indigenous knowledge in Africa. IK has always been subjected to prejudice, and the contributions made by Africa to the body of knowledge are conspicuously missing from text books for formal education and continue to remain unknown. Data for this study were collected from WoS and Scopus databases and saved into excel sheets for further analysis. The results suggest that the bulk pf IK research was done in medicinal and pharmaceutical sciences. When it comes to Library and Information Science, the researchers focus was more on the management of IK, which was motivated by the preservation role that Information science professionals must play as the custodians of knowledge generated in societies.
- Subjects
AFRICA; TRADITIONAL knowledge; INFORMATION science; TEXTBOOKS; INFORMATION society; LIBRARY science
- Publication
Publishing Research Quarterly, 2019, Vol 35, Issue 3, p445
- ISSN
1053-8801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12109-019-09656-6