Our Mission

Africa Science Trackers' mission is to:

  • Develop an: ALL- African Citation-Index (AST Citation-Index) of peer-reviewed scientific articles and other document types; and 2) ALL-African Scientist-Index (AST Scientist-Index)
  • Facilitate the development of comprehensive bibliometric databases for institutions, government departments and NGOs throughout the continent
  • Conduct high quality research in the Higher Education, Science and Technology sectors
  • Establish linkages between academia, industry and government

Objectives

Africa Science Trackers' objectives are to:

  • Boost the visibility of "African Science" continentally and globally
  • Index all active scientists/Scholars and their peer-reviewed output on the continent
  • Close or minimize the "information gap" that exists on the continent
  • Encourage the production and innovative utilization of high quality research output toward the millennium development goals
  • Promote greater participation by African countries in the global knowledge economy
  • Facilitate the development of domestic science indicators and policies
  • Identify and describe research trends by subject field
  • Support favorable or "win-win", "South-South" and "North-South" scientific/scholarly collaborations

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Mission

Linking you to science on the continent