The objective of this paper is to uncover the relationship between internet penetration and cloud computing research output and to understand the connection between the interest in cloud computing on research outputs in cloud computing from African countries. For the period of 2009 to 2017, bibliometric data on cloud computing research was retrieved from the Scopus database. Online search traffic data on the search term “cloud computing” was obtained from Google trends for the period under review. Our results show that there was a strong significant correlation between internet penetration and the total number of scholarly outputs within the given period for all countries studied, suggesting that an increase in internet penetration is directly proportional to increase in cloud computing research activities and outputs from a given region. The penetration of internet technologies contributes significantly to the advancement of research efforts and scholarly outputs in ICT-related endeavours.

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互联网接入对非洲云计算研究的影响：文献计量和在线搜索数据分析

本文的目的是揭示互联网普及率和云计算研究成果之间的关系，并了解非洲国家对云计算的兴趣与云计算研究成果之间的联系。2009年至2017年期间，从Scopus数据库中检索到云计算研究的文献计量数据。搜索词“云计算”的在线搜索流量数据来自回顾期内的谷歌趋势。我们的研究结果表明，在给定时期内，所有研究国家的互联网普及率与学术产出总数之间存在很强的显着相关性，这表明互联网普及率的增加与云计算研究活动的增加和来自一个国家的产出的增加成正比。给定区域。