Abd-Allah Foad, Kissani Najib, William Anthony, Oraby Mohammed Ibrahim, Moustafa Ramez Reda, Shaker Ehab, El-Tamawy Mohamed Soliman, Shakir Raad
Department of Neurology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Department of Neurology, Marrakech University Hospital, Marrakech, Morocco.
eNeurologicalSci. 2015 Nov 10;3:7-10. doi: 10.1016/j.ensci.2015.10.005. eCollection 2016 Jun.
There are limited data on the contribution of the African continent to neuroscience research and publications. This review aims to provide a clear view on the state of neuroscience research among African countries, and to compare neuroscience research within the 52 African countries. A literature review search was conducted for all published articles by African authors in both local and international journals using Medline and other primary databases. Neuroscience represents 9.1% of the total medical publications. The highest percentage of neuroscience publications comes from South Africa. There is a positive correlation between the Gross Domestic Product and the total number of neuroscience publications among African countries. There is therefore an urgent need to develop strategies to improve neuroscience research in African countries.
关于非洲大陆对神经科学研究及出版物的贡献，相关数据有限。本综述旨在清晰呈现非洲国家神经科学研究的现状，并对52个非洲国家的神经科学研究进行比较。通过使用医学数据库（Medline）和其他主要数据库，对非洲作者在本地和国际期刊上发表的所有文章进行了文献综述检索。神经科学占医学出版物总数的9.1%。神经科学出版物占比最高的是南非。非洲国家的国内生产总值与神经科学出版物总数之间存在正相关。因此，迫切需要制定战略以改善非洲国家的神经科学研究。
