All alumni until AIMS-year 2013 were analysed, amounting to 560 alumni. 170 alumni were matched to articles in Scopus. Scopus identified 574 unique publications from these 170 alumni.
Key figures
| Sum of publications per alumni | 587 |
| Alumni with at least 1 paper | 170 |
| Alumni with at least 2 papers | 110 |
| Female alumni in database Male alumni in database |
174 (31% of alumni) 293 (69% of alumni) |
| Female alumni with publications Male alumni with publication |
39 (22% of female alumni) 131 (33% of male alumni) |
| Female alumni with at least 2 publications Male alumni with at least 2 publications |
24 (14% of female alumni)
86 (22% of male alumni) |
| Publications by female alumni Publications by male alumni |
95 (16 % of publications) 492 (84% of publications) |
Source: Technopolis 2015, Scopus
In addition to these publications, some alumni have published scientific work outside the scope of Scopus, e.g. on online blogs. From the online profiles and publications provided by AIMS it was found that at least 23 alumni have published papers that are not in the Scopus database. These mostly included papers published in online open sources.
The following analysis is based on publications in the Scopus database.The papers published consist of 75% of articles in journals (including articles in press), 22% of conference papers. The other 3% include notes, book chapters and reviews. The five main subject areas of papers are Mathematics (19%), Physics and Astronomy (19%), Computer Science (11%), Engineering (96%) and Medicine (9%).
Alumni publications per year
Top 10 alumni researchers
According to their h-index and number of citations.
| Name | Affiliation | Publications | Citations | h- index |
|
Osalusi Emmanuel |
Heriot-Watt University, International Centre for Island Technology, Edinburgh, UK |
12 |
169 |
8 |
| Abdussalam Shehu Shuaibu, | Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Triestem Italy |
12 |
285 |
7 |
| Ndeffo Martial Loth Mbah | Yale University, Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, New Haven, US |
20 |
99 |
7 |
| Mazandu Gaston Kuzamunu | African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, South Africa |
17 |
82 |
6 |
| Mabiala Justin | Cyclotron Institute, College Station, US | 29 | 72 | 6 |
| Okeke Onyekwelu Uzodinma | Harvard University, Department of Physics, Cambridge, US |
6 |
93 |
4 |
| Hamdouni Yamen | N/A | 10 | 92 | 4 |
| Johnstone-Robertson Simon Peter | University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia |
6 |
85 |
4 |
| Akofor Earnest | Syracuse University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, US |
9 |
79 |
4 |
|
Worku Dawit Solomon |
University of Cape Town, UCT-CERN Research, Centre and Department of Physics, Cape Town, South Africa |
4 |
71 |
4 |
Citations
The cumulative number of citations on 30 June 2015 is 1663. The average number of citations per paper is 2.9. However, more than half of the papers have not received any citations. This is not surprising as many papers have been published as conference papers and/or have been published recently. If papers with zero citations are excluded, the average citations per pa amounts to 6.9 per paper. Another key indicator is the h-index, which is 19. Thus, 19 documents of alumni have been cited at least 19 times.
The top 5 cited papers
| Alumni | Paper reference | # |
| G. Mbianda | Puckett, A. J. R., Brash, E. J., Jones, M. K., Luo, W., Meziane, M., Pentchev, L., …& Huber, G. M. (2010). Recoil polarization measurements of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio to Q 2= 8.5 GeV 2. Physical review letters, 104(24), 242301. | 112 |
| Tendai Mugwagwa | Den Braber, I., Mugwagwa, T., Vrisekoop, N., Westera, L., Mögling, R., de Boer, A. B., … & Tesselaar, K. (2012). Maintenance of peripheral naive T cells is sustained by thymus output in mice but not humans. Immunity, 36(2), 288-297. | 71 |
| Shehu S.Abdussalam | Conlon, J. P., Abdussalam, S. S., Quevedo, F., & Suruliz, K. (2007). Soft SUSY breaking terms for chiral matter in IIB string compactifications. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007(01), 032. | 54 |
| Shehu S.Abdussalam | Feroz, F., Allanach, B. C., Hobson, M., AbdusSalam, S. S., Trotta, R., & Weber, A.M. (2008). Bayesian selection of sign µ within mSUGRA in global fits including WMAP5 results. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(10), 064. | 53 |
| Shehu S.Abdussalam | Feroz, F., Allanach, B. C., Hobson, M., AbdusSalam, S. S., Trotta, R., & Weber, A.M. (2008). Bayesian selection of sign µ within mSUGRA in global fits including WMAP5 results. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(10), 064. | 50 |
Source: Technopolis 2015, Scopus
Journals
Impact factors for the top 5 journals with most the alumni publications
| Journal | Number of publication | SNIP 2004 – 2014 | SNIP 2014 |
| Physical Review C – Nuclear Physics | 13 | 1.64 | 1.649 |
| PLoS ONE | 10 | 0.74 | 1.034 |
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series | 9 | 0.24 | 0.266 |
| Journal of High Energy Physics | 8 | 1.09 | 1.048 |
| Physical Review D – Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
8 |
1.36 |
1.159 |
The overall average SNIP factor per publication is 1.1, which indicates that AIMS Alunni publish in journals that perform slightly better than other journals in similar fields.
Network Analysis
The figure shows that the alumni work mostly together with researchers from institutes in South Africa, US, Canada and Europe. In Europe the alumni mostly co-published with researchers from the UK, Italy, France, Belgium and Germany. Besides South Africa, the alumni co- publish with researchers from other African countries; mainly from Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana, Sudan and Tanzania.
Top 15 institutes in terms of co-publications
| Institute | Number of c0-publications | Country |
| University of Cape Town | 83 | South Africa |
| Stellenbosch University | 61 | South Africa |
| University of KwaZulu-Natal | 41 | South Africa |
| University of the Western Cape | 38 | South Africa |
| University of Witwatersrand | 36 | South Africa |
| Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | 23 | Belgium |
| Heriot-Watt University | 21 | United Kingdom |
| Cyclotron Institute | 20 | United States |
| Texas A and M University | 19 | United States |
| The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research | 17 | South Africa |
| Ithemba Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences | 16 | South Africa |
| University of Cambridge | 15 | United Kingdom |
| INFN – Laboratori Nazionali del Sud | 15 | Italy |
| Yale University | 14 | United States |
| Khartoum University | 14 | Sudan |
Source: Technopolis 2015, Scopus