Why the Journal Impact Factor is a poor proxy for research worth, and what to measure instead — a visual guide to DORA, article-level metrics, altmetrics, and societal impact for African researchers.
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New open-access Law research for African scholarship — 6 African-led studies + 4 global breakthroughs, with journals cited.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Law (week of 27 June 2026) Read More »
New open-access Education research for African scholarship — 6 African-led studies + 4 global breakthroughs, with journals cited.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Education (week of 28 June 2026) Read More »
New open-access Arts & Humanities research for African scholarship — 6 African-led studies + 4 global breakthroughs, with journals cited.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Arts & Humanities (week of 28 June 2026) Read More »
New open-access Medical & Health Sciences research for African scholarship — 6 African-led studies plus 4 global ones, all with journals cited. This week: AI in Sub-Saharan African emergency medicine, a One Health zoonotic-surveillance system in DR Congo, new KDIGO kidney-care guidelines, and gum disease linked to 70+ systemic conditions.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Medical & Health Sciences (week of 29 June 2026) Read More »
This week’s digest features 7 African-led studies and 3 global studies from journals like Nano-Micro Letters, Journal of Economic Asymmetries, and Carbon Energy. This week: a bifunctional catalyst that splits water and cleans wastewater simultaneously, evidence that macroeconomic shocks persistently reduce African income growth, a solar-powered urine concentrator for off-grid sanitation, and an AI agent that outperforms dense retrievers on reasoning-intensive multimodal search.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Technology & Engineering (week of 30 June 2026) Read More »
New open-access Agriculture & Life Systems research for African scholarship.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Agriculture & Life Systems (week of 24 June 2026) Read More »
New open-access Technology & Engineering research for African scholarship — 6 African-led studies + 4 global breakthroughs, with journals cited.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Technology & Engineering (week of 23 June 2026) Read More »
DOAJ launches a French-language application form, lowering barriers for Francophone African journal editors seeking indexing — part of a broader equity push in open-access infrastructure.
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The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize has shortlisted 16 innovators across 11 countries — including two Nigerians with solutions tackling maternal health and medical oxygen access.
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