College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2022 31 Research And Innovation Prof Hossana Twinomurinzi Vice Dean: Research, Innovation, and Internationalisation College of Business and Economics OVERVIEW Figure 1, particularly highlighted in green, presents an overview of the 2022 Research Excellence Framework. In terms of impact, the number of Scopus-listed publications increased to 658 (+14.24%), Scopus-listed publications in collaboration with international scholars increased to 46% (+3.60%), Scopus citations are standing at 7,582 (+16.52%). Publications in the Top 10% of global journals (SNIP) increased by 14.38% to 31%. Research Framework 2021 2022 Change Journal 479.6 548.5675 14% Book 18.5 14.3333 -23% Chapter 52.36 35.8269 -32% Proceeding 45.98 63.4613 38% 4IR 98.8 123.1394 25% SOTL 28.79 72.4288 152% Scopus 576 658 14% DOAJ 84 166 98% IBSS 49 36 -27% WoS 7 9 29% DHET 25 25 0% SNIP 29.7 31 4% Scopus (International colab) - %age 44.4 46 4% Scopus (4IR) 77 161 109% Scopus (Citations) 6507 7582 17% Figure 1: CBE Research Framework The increase in the number of journal articles (+14.38%) and more significant growth in conference proceedings (+38.02%) points to the post-COVID return to travel and the continuous increase in the quality of our research outputs. Most notably, our journal articles exceeded the 500-mark barrier for the first time! There was also a significant increase in SOTL publications (+151.58), which reflects how CBE researchers published their reflections on their teaching and learning experiences during and after COVID. One hundred seventy-six publications had COVID in their titles. Figure 2 represents a word cloud of all the 2022 CBE research, reflecting how CBE actively engaged in social and economic matters important to South Africa, economic performance, risk, COVID, technology, youth and tourism.
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