Daisy Jacobs 8: djacobs@pan.zulu.ac.za
Department of Library and Information Science,
University of Zululand,
South Africa
Abstract
This study presents the mainstream scientific output of five of the most productive South African institutions over a 10 year period between 1995 and 2004. The paper discusses the distribution of publications by institutions, index of specialization, collaboration and patterns of co-authorship. The results show that South African authors collaborated more frequently with international authors (73.99%) than with national authors (26.01%). This was confirmed statistically at a confidence level of p-value <0.025. A further non-parametric chi-square statistical analysis illustrated that there are significant differences in the proportion of co-authorship amongst the five institutions (p-value<0.005).
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