AbstractThis study presents a bibliometric analysis of the publication patterns of indigenous knowledge in Africa. IK has always been subjected to prejudice, and the contributions made by Africa to the body of knowledge are conspicuously missing from text books for formal education and continue to remain unknown. Data for this study were collected from WoS and Scopus databases and saved into excel sheets for further analysis. The results suggest that the bulk pf IK research was done in medicinal and pharmaceutical sciences. When it comes to Library and Information Science, the researchers focus was more on the management of IK, which was motivated by the preservation role that Information science professionals must play as the custodians of knowledge generated in societies.

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非洲的土著知识：出版模式的文献计量分析

摘要本研究对非洲土著知识的出版模式进行了文献计量分析。IK 一直受到偏见的影响，非洲对知识体系的贡献在正规教育的教科书中明显缺失，并且仍然不为人所知。这项研究的数据是从 WoS 和 Scopus 数据库中收集的，并保存到 Excel 表格中以供进一步分析。结果表明，大量的 pf IK 研究是在医学和制药科学中进行的。在图书馆和信息科学方面，研究人员更多地关注 IK 的管理，这是由信息科学专业人员作为社会产生的知识的保管人必须发挥的保存作用所推动的。