A | ||
COVID-19 articles not related to Africa (N=2196) | COVID-19 articles related to Africa (N=94) | |
Total number of articles with any African author(s) | 35 (1.6%) | 75 (79.8%) |
No of articles with African first author | 11 (0.5%) | 39 (37.2%) |
No of articles with African last author | 5 (0.2%) | 18 (19.1%) |
No of articles with African first and last authors | 1 (0.05%) | 13 (13.8%) |
B | ||
Authors of all COVID-19 articles not related to Africa
(N=8603) |
Authors of all COVID-19 articles related to Africa
(N=619) | |
Total number of African authors | 82 (3.1%) | 210 (34.3%) |
Mean number of authors per article across | 4.2 | 6.6 |
Mean number of African authors per article | 0.1 | 2.2 |