Daisy Jacobs
Country: South Africa
Education and Position:
B Sc Honours, 1st, (University of Madras); MSc Chemistry,1st (University of Bombay India); MIS Information Science, Cum Laude (University of Natal, South Africa); PhD. Scientometrics, (University of Natal, South Africa).
Senior Lecturer of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
Editor of Journal of Digital Information Management.
Life member of International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics.
Member of Library and Information Association of South Africa
Founding member of DISSANET (South Africa).
Area of Research:
Scientometric evaluation, Inter institutional as well as international collaboration in research. A study of indicators of collaboration in research fields, with particular reference to nature and type of collaboration, impact of funding on collaboration, level of productivity at which authors collaborate among them. At present she is concentrating on the study of growth, and collaboration in science intensive technological areas using S&T indicators.
Email:
daisy dot jacobs at up dot ac dot za
daisymjacobs at yahoo dot com
