An understanding of the pattern and trends of publication among African Researchers could led to devising more words of improvement n academic publication in Africa.
Dear Abdul Hamidu Abdullahi ,
From my understanding, there is a structural problem inhibiting the development of high quality journals in Africa.
In developed countries universities are generally wealthy and can afford to purchase expensive licenses for peer reviewed journals. This enables the publishers to publish articles for free. Peer reviewing is seen as a reputational activity which does not require a financial reward.
In Africa, universities are generally not as wealthy and cannot afford to purchase licences for journals. Most publishers therefore need to charge authors to publish. Peer reviewers also expect to be reimbursed. Both of these financial arrangements discourage the publication of high quality African journals.
Dear Abdul,
Thanks a lot for raising this question. So many factors contribute.
1. Online visibility: most of our journals in Africa are not conspicuously online, have no doi or url etc. Using them as evidence is therefore, very difficult and discourage prospective authors that are desirous of integrating in the global knowledge pool.
2. A vast majority of our journals in Africa are not indexed in global reputable indexing sites such as scopus and WOS. Publishing with them, therefore, earn you just little or no points at all in other climes.
3. Delay in manuscript publication, poor correspondence/communication
4. APC: most university based journals oversees are free. Meanwhile, ours at home charge publication fee and keeps hiking them based on market exigiencies
5. Etc. I hope these my random thoughts help this discussion, Weldon ✊
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