Taylor and Francis in South Africa

Webinars for students and researchers in Southern Africa

Upcoming Webinars

Past Events: Watch the Recording

Increasing the visibility and impact of your research

Taylor & Francis Group and The Conversation Africa, in association with SANLIC, are pleased to present an interactive webinar on how authors can increase the impact of their research using a range of tools.

More journal articles are being published than ever before and authors need to learn to leverage opportunities to promote their work. We’ll focus on press campaigns and social media engagement as well as giving tips on SEO and conference participation. The content will be relevant to southern African researchers of all experience levels. All are welcome and there is no charge.

Introduction to Open Research & Open Access

An introduction to the Global Open Research movement in publishing, including the basics of how Open Access works, and advice on how to identify and avoid predatory publishing. 

The Research Publication Cycle

Watch presentations from our in-house experts and external editors on the research publication cycle. 

You can watch more event recordings for researchers in Africa here

Access Your Content

All institutions of the South African National Library and Information Consortium have access:

South African journals published by Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis publish a range of journals specific to South Africa. You can browse through these journals here. Below are some highlights:

Co-publication with UNISA (University of South Africa) Press and NISC

As the only international academic publisher with an editorial team on the continent, Taylor & Francis Africa is embedded in the local and regional environment. This puts us in a strong position to work closely with key institutions, learned societies, and government stakeholders to enable the creation and dissemination of African research in the global arena.

Key to our success in the region are our long-standing co-publishing partnerships with South African publishers, with around half of the South African portfolio co-published with NISC and Unisa Press.

We also work closely with co-publishers, institutes, and organizations to provide workshops, training, and resources for researchers.

South African Research published by Taylor & Francis

Researchers in South Africa have published over 50,000 articles with Taylor & Francis.

In 2020, 3428 articles were published, accounting for 17.2% of the total research output from South Africa that year. These numbers are steadily rising, from 2802 in 2019, and 2669 in 2018.

Highly-cited Taylor & Francis content from South Africa

Altmetrics

Altmetric Attention Scores are tracked and collated mentions and shares of journal articles and other outputs across social media outlets, blogs, public policy documents, patent citations, post-publication peer-review forums, and online reference managers.

Altmetric LLP, collect article-level metrics and the online conversations around articles on Taylor & Francis Online, to give an indicator of digital impact and reach. “Mentions” that contain links to any version of the same article are picked up and collated. The result is the Altmetric Attention Score.

Altmetrics demonstrate the impact of research beyond academia. These are some of the highest-scoring South African articles from the last few years.

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