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A Knysna dwarf chameleon ( Bradypodion damaranum ). In their study, Adair and colleagues explored the efficacy of a minimally disruptive DNA sampling technique, buccal swabbing, as an alternative to tissue sampling via tail clipping, in dwarf chameleons ( Bradypodion spp.).

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Corporate tax avoidance: is south african society negatively affected by chartered accountant ceos, alcohol consumption patterns, suppliers and online alcohol marketing: before and during covid-19 alcohol bans, radiocarbon-dated evidence for late pleistocene and holocene coastal change at yzerfontein, western cape, south africa, the pros and cons of buccal swabbing and tail clipping for monitoring reptilian biodiversity, snp-based marker-assisted selection for high provitamin a content in african cassava genetic background, a mesocosm study on the use of clay minerals to improve heavy metal phytoremediation capacity of vetiver grass (chrysopogon zizanioides l. roberty), occurrence, quantification and removal of triclosan in wastewater of umbogintwini industrial complex in kwamakhutha, south africa, antibacterial activity of two actinomycetes species isolated from black sand in north egypt, performance of leaf extract media in culturing mycorrhizal mushroom mycelium.

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Current Issue: Vol. 43 No. 3 (2023)

Published: 2023-11-09

“We need our own super heroes and their stories” – Towards decolonised teaching within the management sciences

Improving soya mince recipes in the national school nutrition programme in south africa, exploring teachers’ experiences in implementing the screening, identification, assessment and support policy in south africa, exploring the challenges of curriculum advisors in schools in the vhembe-west district, limpopo province, south africa, financial management decision-making of school finance committees in public primary schools in mpumalanga province, south africa, more than a principal: ubuntu at the heart of successful school leadership in the western cape, experiences of parental involvement in privileged and underprivileged schools, effects and challenges to implement differentiated mathematics teaching among fourth graders in montenegro, an investigation of sociomathematical norms perceived by students regarding the legitimacy of solutions, promoting formative assessment practices in senior phase mathematics classrooms using meaning equivalence reusable learning objects, dispositional mindfulness associated with less academic burnout among muslim students during the covid-19 pandemic, social support at work and workload as predictors of satisfaction with life of peruvian teachers, the moderating role of supervisor support in the effect of perceived overqualification on workplace loneliness, reflections of south african educators on the enablement of at-risk learners with protective systems via the read-me-to-resilience intervention, guidelines for instructional design of courses for the development of self-regulated learning for teachers, an empirical review of a hybrid teacher education programme: lessons from south africa.

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Akinola, G. & Grobbelaar, S . 2022.   Bridging the Research–practice Gap in African Management Research: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector,   Journal of African Business , 23(3):   617-637,   DOI:  10.1080/15228916.2021.1904757

Boshoff, N . & Ngwenya, S . 2022. Agricultural Research in Zimbabwe: An Author-level Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Outlets and Research Collaboration. Science, Technology & Society 27 (3:) 404–428. DOI: 10.1177/09717218221078186

Carballo-Costa, L., Michaleff, Z.A., Costas, R ., Quintela-del-Rio, A., Vivas-Costa, J. & Moseley, A.M. 2022. Evolution of the thematic structure and main producers of physical therapy interventions research: A bibliometric analysis (1986 to 2017). Brazilian Journal of Physical Therap y 26(40 ,): 100429. DOI: 10.1016/j.bjpt.2022.100429

Costas, R. , Corona, C. & Robinson-Garcia, N. 2022. Could ORCID play a key role in meta-research? discussing new analytical possibilities to study the dynamics of science and scientists. SocArXiv . DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/sjck6

Fang, Z., Dudek, J . & Costas, R. 2022. Facing the volatility of tweets in altmetric research. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol 73:1192–1195. DOI: 10.1002/asi.24624 

Fecher, B., Kuper, F., Fahnrich, B., Schmid-Petri, H., Schildhauer, T., Weingart, P . & Wormer, H. 2022. Balancing interests between freedom and censorship: Organizational strategies for quality assurance in science communication. Science and Public Policy 00: 1-4. DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scac043

Guenther, L. & Granert, L. 2022. ‘Evidence in the eye of the beholder: portrayals of risk and scientific (un)certainty in Don’t look up ’.  JCOM 21(05): C03. DOI 10.22323/2.21050303 .

Hlongwanem, S., Grobbelaar, S. 2022. A Practical Framework for Value Creation in Health Information Systems From an Ecosystem Perspective: Evaluated in the South African Context.  Front Psychol. 13: 637883. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.637883

Iqani, M. 2022.   “One day you’ll buy a Rolex from me”: reflexivity and researcher decoding positions in luxury research,   Consumption Markets & Culture,   DOI:  10.1080/10253866.2022.2094920

Iqani, M . & Kenny, B. 2022   “A LOOT-a continua”? Inequality, humour, and broken aspirations in South African consumer culture,   Consumption Markets & Culture ,   DOI:  10.1080/10253866.2022.2124978

Joubert, M ., Guenther, L. & Rademan, L. 2022. Expert voices in South African mass media during the COVID-19 pandemic. S. Afr. j. sci. 118(5-6): #12480. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2022/12480

Kahn, M.J. 2022. An Exploratory Study of the Social Contract of Research and Innovation in Africa. Front Res Metr Anal. 7: 849263. DOI: 10.3389/frma.2022.849263

Lamprecht, C., Guenther, L . & Joubert, M . 2022.   ‘Polony panic’: News values and risk messages in news coverage of the South African listeriosis outbreak of 2017–2018,   Health, Risk & Society ,   24:1-2,   67-91.   DOI:  10.1080/13698575.2022.2033177

Lombard, N., Stander, M., Redelinghuys, H. , Le Roux, M.M., Van Wyk, B-E. 2022. A Study of Phenolic Compounds and Their Chemophenetic Value in the Genus Thesium (Santalaceae). Diversity 14(8): 590. DOI: 10.3390/d14080590

Mongeon, P., Bowman, T.D. & Costas, R . 2022. An open dataset of scholars on Twitter.  arXiv :2208.11065. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2208.11065

Nane, G.F., Robinson‑Garcia, N., van Schalkwyk, F . & Torres‑Salinas, D. 2022. COVID‑19 and the scientific publishing system: growth, open access and scientific felds. Scientometrics, 127:1588-2861. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-022-04536-x

Ngwenya, S . & Boshoff, N. 2022. Different manifestations of ‘context’: examples from a bibliometric study of research in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa. Scientometrics 127: 3911–3933. DOI:  10.1007/s11192-022-04435-1

Ratshidi, L., Grobbelaar, S. & Botha, A. 2022. Conceptualising the Factors Influencing Community Health Workers’ Preparedness for ICT Implementation: A Systematised Scoping Review. Sustainability 14 (14): 8930. DOI: 10.3390/su14148930

Venter, S. & Grobbelaar, S . 2022. “A Technology Management Capabilities Framework for Technology Platforms,” in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management ,. DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2022.3172720.

Whitehouse-Tedd, K.M., Lozano-Martinez, J., Reeves, J., Page, M., Martin, J.H. & Prozesky, H . 2022.  Anthrozoös ,   35(2):   307-322,   DOI:  10.1080/08927936.2021.1986263

Weingart, P ., Guenther, L . & Van Schalkwyk, F . 2022. Democratic and expert legitimacy: Science, politics and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Science and Public Policy 49(3): 499–517. DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scac003

Booysen, M.J., Samuels, J.A. & Grobbelaar, S.S. 2021. LED there be light: The impact of replacing lights at schools in South Africa. Energy and Buildings , vol. 235, 110736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.110736

Costas, R., De Rijcke, S. & Marres, N. 2021. “Heterogeneous couplings”: Operationalizing network perspectives to study science-society interactions through social media metrics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology , vol. 72(5):595-610. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24427

Spies, R., Siegfried, N., Myers, B. & Grobbelaar, S.S. 2021. Concept and development of an interactive tool for trial recruitment planning and management. Trials , 22, art. #.: 189. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05112-z

Vermeulen, E., Grobbelaar, S.S . & Botha A., 2021. Conceptualising a systems thinking perspective in sport studies. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science (TTIE), 22(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/1463922X.2020.1788662

Weingart, P . & Meyer, C. 2021. Citizen science in South Africa: Rhetoric and reality. Public Understanding in Science 30(5) 605–620. DOI: 10.1177/0963662521996556

Basson, I., Blanckenberg, J.P. & Prozesky, H. 2020. Do open access journal articles experience a citation advantage? Results and methodological reflections of an application of multiple measures to an analysis by WoS subject areas. Scientometrics , vol. 126:459–484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03734-9

Boshoff, N. & De Jong, S.P.L. 2020. Conceptualizing the societal impact of research in terms of elements of logic models: a survey of researchers in sub-Saharan Africa. Research Evaluation , vol. 29(1):48–65. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvz020

Boshoff, N. & Lamptey, R.B. 2020. Research by academic librarians at public universities in Ghana: emerging patterns from a survey and a bibliometric study. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 86 (1):38-51. https://doi.org/10.7553/86-1-1833

Boshoff, N. & Ngwenya, S. 2020. Participation of ‘international national organisations’ in Africa’s research: a bibliometric study of agriculture and health in Zimbabwe. Scientometrics, vol. 124:533–553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03480-y

Bvuchete, M., Grobbelaar, S.S. & Van Eeden, J. 2020. Best practices for demand driven supply chain management in public healthcare sector: A systematic review. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 32(2), pp 11-27 . http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/31-2-2006

Costas, R., Mongeon, P., Ferreira, M.R., Van Honk, J., Franssen, T. Large-scale identification and characterization of scholars on Twitter. Quantitative Science Studies , 1(2), 771–791 .  https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00047

Dondofema, R. & Grobbelaar, S.S. 2020. Supporting innovation through a multi-level platforms approach: A case study of the South African fresh fruit industry. African Journal of Science Technology Innovation and Development, 12(4) https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2019.1681102

Duvenhage, F., A., Brent, A. C., Stafford, W.H.H. & Grobbelaar, S.S. 2020. Water and CSP—Linking CSP Water Demand Models and National Hydrology Data to Sustainably Manage CSP Development and Water Resources in Arid Regions. Sustainability , 12(8), 3373. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083373

Els, C., Grobbelaar, S.S. & Kennon, D. 2020. Complementary Partnerships for SMEs: A Relational Capability Maturity Model from an Ecosystem Perspective . Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol. 12066:67–78. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44999-5_6

Fang, Z. & Costas, R. 2020. Studying the accumulation velocity of altmetric data tracked by Altmetric.com. Scientometrics , vol. 123:1077–1101 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03405-9

Fang, Z., Costas, R., Tian, W., Wang, X., Wouters, P. 2020. An extensive analysis of the presence of altmetric data for Web of Science publications across subject fields and research topics. Scientometrics, vol. 124:2519–2549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03564-9

Fang, Z; Dudek, J., Costas, R. 2020. The Stability of Twitter Metrics: A Study on Unavailable Twitter Mentions of Scientific Publications. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology , vol. 71(12):1455-1469. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24344

Herman, H., Grobbelaar, S.S. & Pistorius, C. 2020. The design and development of technology platforms in a developing country health context from an ecosystem perspective. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 20, art. # 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-1028-0

Hove, P., Grobbelaar, S.S. 2020. Innovation for inclusive development: the adoption and diffusion of ICTs in the South African Primary Education System. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 31(1), pp 47-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/31-1-2119

Kahn M 2020. Innovation policy and industrial policy. Speaking with different voices? Triple Helix Association Magazine Helice, 9(1):34-41. https://www.triplehelixassociation.org/helice/volume-9-2020/helice-volume-9-issue-1

Lyu, X. & Costas, R. 2020. How do academic topics shift across altmetric sources? A case study of the research area of Big Data. Scientometrics , vol. 123:909–943. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03415-7

Mahl, D., Guenther, L., Schäfer, M.S., Meyer, C. & Siegen, D. 2020. “We are a Bit Blind About it”: A Qualitative Analysis of Climate  Change-Related Perceptions and Communication Across South African Communities. Environmental Communication , vol. 14 (6): 208–815. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2020.1736116

Marais, A., Grobbelaar, S.S., Kennon, D., Meyer, I. & Herselman, M. 2020. Supporting the Formation and Functioning of Innovation Platforms in Healthcare Value Chains. Science and Public Policy , scaa061. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa061

Ratshidi L., Grobbelaar, S.S. & Botha, A. 2020. Categorization of Factors Influencing Community Health Workers from a Socio-Technical Systems Perspective, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol. 12067,  pp. 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45002-1

Robinson-Garcia, N., Costas, R., Sugimoto, C.R., Lariviere, V. & Nane, G.F.2020. Meta-Research: Task specialization across research careers, eLife 2020;9:e60586. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60586

Robinson-Garcia, N., Costas, R. & Van Leeuwen, T.N. 2020. Open Access uptake by universities worldwide. PeerJ , 8:e9410. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9410

Samuels, J., Grobbelaar, S.S. & Booysen, M.J., 2020. Light-years apart Energy usage by schools across the South African affluence divide article. Energy Research and Social Science, vol. 70, 101692 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101692

Scerri, M. 2020. The viability of systems of innovation. Innovation and Development , 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2020.1798636

Spies, R., Grobbelaar, S.S. & Botha A. 2020. A Scoping Review of the Application of the Task-Technology Fit Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol. 12066:397–408. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44999-5_33

Tijssen, R.J.W., Van de Klippe, W. & Yegros, A.2020. Localisation, regionalisation and globalisation of university-business interactions in the United Kingdom, Papers in Regional Science , 99:1215-1236. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12531

Van der Merwe, M., Grobbelaar, S.S., Meyer, I., Schutte, C. & Von Leipzig, K. 2020.. A Framework of Key Growth Factors for Small Enterprises Operating at the Base of the Pyramid. Sustainability, 12(22), 9327. https://doi:10.3390/su12229327

Van Schalkwyk, F. 2020. Normative drift and self-correction in scholarly book publishing: The case of Makerere University. Learned Publishing, 33(3):259-268. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1292

Van Schalkwyk, F. 2020. Reflections on the public university sector and the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. Studies in Higher Education, 46(1):44-58. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2020.1859682

Van Schalkwyk, F., Dudek, J. & Costas, R. 2020. Communities of shared interests and cognitive bridges: The case of the anti-vaccination movement on Twitter. Scientometrics, 125:1499–1516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03551-0

Van Schalkwyk, S., Mouton, J., Redelinghuys, H. & McKenna, S. 2020. A systematic analysis of doctoral publication trends in South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 116(7/8), Art. #7926. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/7926

Zahedi, Z. & Costas, R. 2020. Do Online Readerships Offer Useful Assessment Tools? Discussion Around the Practical Applications of Mendeley Readership for Scholarly Assessment, Scholarly Assessment Reports, 2(1): 14. https://doi.org/10.29024/sar.20

Bauer, M., Falade, B. and Pansegrau. P. 2019. The cultural authority of science – summary and future research agenda. In M. W. Bauer, P. Pansegrau, & R. Shukla (Eds.),  The cultural authority of science – Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas (pp. 377–382). London, New York:  Routledge.

Falade, B. 2019. Vaccines, Polio and Ebola: religion and traditions compete with scientific authority in West Africa. In M. W. Bauer, P. Pansegrau, & R. Shukla (Eds.),  The cultural authority of science – Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas (pp. 211–227). London, New York:  Routledge.

Guenther, L., Weingart, P., & Joubert, M. 2019. Bridging a gap – Mapping the science coverage of South African newspapers. In M. W. Bauer, P. Pansegrau, & R. Shukla (Eds.),  The cultural authority of science – Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas (pp. 137–154). London, New York:  Routledge.

Parker, S and Mouton, J. 2019. Exploring the cultural authority of science in South Africa through public attitudes to science. In M. W. Bauer, P. Pansegrau, & R. Shukla (Eds.),  The cultural authority of science – Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas (pp. 319–338). London, New York:  Routledge.

Weingart, P. 2019. The authority of science revisited – mainly Anglo-European. In M. W. Bauer, P. Pansegrau, & R. Shukla (Eds.),  The cultural authority of science – Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas (pp. 22–31). London, New York:  Routledge.

Guenther, L., 2018., Science journalism. In H. Örnebring (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Weingart, P. 2018. Eugenics and Race-Hygiene in the German Context. A Legacy of Science Turned Bad? In G. Baader & J. Peter (Eds.), Public Health, Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus. Gesundheit und Krankheit als Vision der Volksgemeinschaft (pp. 24-51). Frankfurt Main: Mabuse Verlag.

Elena, S. & Van Schalkwyk, F. (2017). Open Data for Open Justice in Seven Latin American Countries. In: Carlos E. Jiménez & Mila Gasco (Eds),  Achieving Open Justice through Citizen Participation and Transparency . IGI Global.

Ruhrmann, G., Guenther, L. 2017. Katastrophen- und Risikokommunikation. In Bonfadelli, H., Fähnrich, B., Lüthje, C., Milde, J., Rhomberg, M. & Schäfer, M.S. (eds.), Forschungsfeld Wissenschaftskommunikation . Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 297–314

Ruhrmann, G., Guenther, L. 2017. Medizin- und Gesundheitsjournalismus. In Rossmann, C., Hastall, M. R. (eds.), Handbuch Gesundheitskommunikation . Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 1–12

Taubert, N. C., & Weingart, P. 2017. Changes In Scientific Publishing: A Heuristic For Analysis. In P. Weingart & N. Taubert (Eds.),  The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation  (pp. 1-33). Cape Town: African Minds. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1003215.

Van Schalkwyk, F. 2017. African universities and connectedness in the information age. In J. Muller, N. Cloete & F. Van Schalkwyk (Eds.),  Castells in Africa: Universities and Development . Cape Town: African Minds. doi: 10.5281/zenodo. 1067348.

Van Schalkwyk, F. & Verhulst, S. 2017. The State of Open Data Research. In Van Schalkwyk, F., Verhulst, S., Magalhaes, G., Pane, J. & Walker, J. (Eds.),  The Social Dynamics of Open Data . Cape Town: African Minds. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1117807.

Weingart, P. 2017. Is There a Hype Problem in Science? If So, How Is It Addressed? In K. Jamieson, D. Kahan, & D. Scheufele (Eds.),  Oxford Library of Psychology. The Oxford Handbook of The Science of Science Communication  (pp. 111-118). Oxford University Press.

Kahn, M. (2015). STEM education in the quest to build a new South Africa, in The Age of STEM Educational policy and practice across the world in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Edited by B. Freeman, S. Marginson, R. Tytler . Routledge. 2015

Mouton, J. & Mouton, C. (2015). Evaluation Designs and Methods, Chapter 5, p. 163-201 in Evaluation Management in South Africa and Africa, F.Cloete, B. Rabie, C de Coning (eds). SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch

Podems, D. 2014. Feminist Evaluation for Nonfeminists, Ch. 5 in Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice. Edited by S. Brisolara, D. Seigart, and S. SenGupta. The Guilford Press, 2014.

Boshoff, N. & Bosch, A. 2012. “Women in South African academia – A statistical profile”. Chapter 3 (pp. 12-20). in The SABPP Women’s Report 2012 , by A Bosch (ed). Johannesburg: South African Board for People Practices.

Kahn, M. 2012. Implementing a Research Data Access Policy in South Africa. In  The Case for International Sharing of Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries: Proceedings of a Symposium , National Academies Press, Washington, USA, p. 21-23.

Kahn, M. 2011. Introduction: A short overview of South African research and innovation. In  The University in Development: case studies of use-oriented research , HSRC Press, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 149-166.

Mouton, J. & Boshoff, N. 2010. Transformation of national science and engineering systems: South Africa. Section 4.5.4.2 (pp. 181-184). in Engineering: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Development . Paris, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001897/189753e.pdf

Mouton, J. & Boshoff, N. 2010. Regional perspectives on engineering: Africa. Section 5.2 (pp. 208-210). in Engineering: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Development . Paris, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001897/189753e.pdf

Mouton, J. & Boshoff, N. 2010. Bibliometric analysis of scientific output. Chapter 5 in African Innovation Outlook 2010 . Pretoria: New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). http://www.nepad.org/system/files/June2011_NEPAD_AIO_2010_English.pdf

Mouton, J. 2010. The state of social science in sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 2.3 in World Social Science Report 2010 by Calloids, F. (Snr ed).. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization & International Social Science Council. (ISBN 978-92-3-104131-0).

Mouton, J. 2009. Engineering in Africa. Chapter in Engineering: Issues and Challenges for Development by Marjoram, T. (ed).. (In press). http://www.unesco.org

Mouton, J. 2009. The internationalization of South African Social Science. Chapter 12 in: The internationalisation of the social sciences and humanities by Kuhn, M. & Weidemann, D. (eds).. Wetzlar: Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH. (ISBN 978-3-8376-1307-0).

Mouton, J. & Boshoff, N. 2009. Die kweekskool deur die oë van die ander. Chapter 8 in Teologie – Stellenbosch 150+ by Coertzen, P. (ed).. Wellington: Bybel-Media. (ISBN 978-0-86-991-6360). http://www.bmedia.co.za

Mouton, J. & Gevers, W.R. 2009. Genesis and history of public science in South Africa. Chapter 1 in The state of science in South Africa by Diab, R. & Gevers, W.R. (eds).. Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa. (ISBN 978-0-9814159-4-9). http://www.assaf.co.za/ePub/ASSAf/ASSAfTWAS.html

Mouton, J. & Waast, R. 2009. Comparative study on national research systems: Findings and lessons learnt. Chapter 5 in Systems of Higher Education, Research and Innovation: Changing dynamics by Meek, V.L., Teichler, U. & Kearney, M-L. (eds).. Kassel: International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER-Kassel). (ISBN 978-3-934377-10-3). http://www.uni-kassel.de/incher/v_pub/UNESCO_RR_09.pdf / http://www.unesco.org/education/researchforum

Mouton, J. & Wildschut, L.P. 2009. Playing catch up: Evaluating a mathematics intervention for disadvantaged learners in South Africa. Chapter 10 in Researching Resilience by Liebenberg, L. & Ungar, M. (eds).. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division.

Mouton, J., Boshoff, N., De Waal, L., Esau, S., Imbayarwo, B., Ritter, M. & Van Niekerk, D. 2008. The state of public science in the SADC region. Chapter 4 in Towards a Common Future: Higher Education in the SADC Region. Research Findings from Four SARUA Studies by Kotecha, P. (ed)., 2008 Study Series. Johannesburg: Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA). (ISBN ). http://www.sarua.org/?q=content/chapter-4-state-public-science-sadc-region

Bawa, A. & Mouton, J. 2006. Research. In Transformation in higher education: Global pressures and local realities in South Africa , by Cloete, N., Fehnel, R., Maassen, P., Moja, T., Perold, H. & Gibbon, T. (eds). Juta and Company. (ISBN 978-1-4020-6179-0).

Mouton, J. 2006. Science for transformation: Research agendas and priorities in South Africa. Chapter 5 in Science and Technology Policy for development, Dialogues at the Interface by Box, L. & Engelhard, R. (eds)., London: Anthem Press. (ISBN 9781843312277).

Mouton, J., Boshoff, N. & Tijssen, R.J.W. 2006. “A comprehensive analysis of South African journals”. Chapter 3 in Report on a Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa . Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa. (ISBN 0-620-36105-0). http://www.assaf.co.za/

Teng-Zeng, F.K. 2005. The Same Story or New Directions? Science and Technology within the Framework of the African Union and New Partnership for Africa’s Development. Chapter 16 in The New Partnership for Africa’s Development: Debates, Opportunities and Challenges by Jacques, G. & Lesetedi, G.N (eds).. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. (ISBN : 079830197x).

Bailey, T.G. 2003. Skills migration and the brain drain. Chapter 10 in Human Resources Development Review 2003: Education, Employment and Skills in South Africa by Kraak, A. & Perold, H. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press and East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. (ISBN 0-7969-2049-4). http://www.hsrc.ac.za

Boshoff, N. & Mouton, J. 2003. “Science policy indicators”. Chapter 9 in Human Resources Development Review 2003: Education, Employment and Skills in South Africa by Kraak, A. & Perold, H. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press and East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. (ISBN 0-7969-2049-4). http://www.hsrc.ac.za

Mouton, J. & Boshoff, N. 2002. “Research capacity and collaboration”. Chapter 4 in Strategic Co-operation Scenarios: Post-school Education in the Eastern Cape , by Pillay, P. & Cloete, N. (eds). Pretoria: Centre for Higher Education Transformation. (ISBN 1-919833-32-3).

Mouton, J. 2001. Theory, metatheory and methodology in development studies: a heuristic framework. Chapter in Development: Theory, Policy and Practice by Coetzee, J.K., Graaff, J., Hendricks, F. & Wood, G. (eds).. Oxford University Press. (ISBN 978-0195719277). http://www.oup.co.za

Mouton, J. 2001. Programme Evaluation Research. Chapter in Development: Theory, Policy and Practice by Coetzee, J.K., Graaff, J., Hendricks, F. & Wood, G. (eds).. Oxford University Press. (ISBN 978-0195719277). http://www.oup.co.za

Mouton, J. & Prozesky, H.E. 2001. Participatory action research. Chapter in Development: Theory, Policy and Practice by Coetzee, J.K., Graaff, J., Hendricks, F. & Wood, G. (eds).. Oxford University Press. (ISBN 978-0195719277). http://www.oup.co.za

Mouton, J. 2000. The thousand schools project: Evaluating a whole school development initiative. Chapter 7 in Addressing childhood adversity . Donald, D.; Dawes, A. & Louw, J. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers (Pty). Ltd. (ISBN 0-86486-449-3).

Mouton, J. (1999). On the nature of social science. In Reflective public administration: views from the South by Wessels, J.S & Pauw, J.C (eds). Cape Town: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 9780195715040). http://www.oup.co.za

Mouton, J. (1998). Values and Tolerance in a Society in Transition: The South African Case. Chapter 6 in Values and Radical Social Change – Comparing Polish and South African Experience by Wnuk-Lipinski, E. (ed)..Warsaw: Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. (ISBN 9788386759606).

Mouton, J. and Muller, J.P. (1998). Tracking trends in theory and method: Past and future. Introduction in Theory and method in South African human sciences research: Advances and innovations by Mouton, J.; Muller, J.; Franks, P. & Sono, T. (eds).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 978-07969-1864-2).

Mouton, J. (1996). Die aard van wetenskapsbeoefening. In Doeltreffende geesteswetenskaplike navorsing by Garbers, J.G. (ed).. Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers. (ISBN 978-0627021640).

Mouton, J. (1996). The end of social theory? In New modes of thinking on the eve of a new century: South African perspectives by Du Toit, C.W. (ed).. Pretoria: UNISA. (ISBN 978-0869819463).

Mouton, J. (1996). The nature and structure of the practice of science. In Effective research in the human sciences by Garbers, J.G. (ed).. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik Publishers. (ISBN 9780627021657).

Mouton, J. (1996). Theory, meta-theory and methodology in development research: A heuristic framework. In Reconstruction, development and people by Coetzee, J.K. & Graaff, J. (eds).. International Thomson Publishing (Southern Africa). (Pty). Ltd. (ISBN 9781868640126).

Mouton, J. (1996). The structuralism of social knowledge. In Methodological challenges of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences by Gasparikova, J. Bakos, V., Pillay, N., Prinsloo, C. (eds).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 9780796917263).

Mouton, J. (1995). Die positivisme. Chapter 1 in Wetenskapbeelde in die geesteswetenskappe by Snyman, J.J. (ed).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 978-07969-1689-1).

Mouton, J. (1995). Human sciences research at South African universities. Chapter 2 in Directory of Human Sciences Research Organizations and Professional Associations in South Africa by Van der Berg, H.; Prinsloo, R. & Pienaar, D. (eds).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 0-7969-1715-9).

Mouton, J. (1995). Thomas S. Kuhn. Chapter 3 in Wetenskapbeelde in die geesteswetenskappe by Snyman, J.J. (ed).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 978-07969-1689-1).

Mouton, J. (1995). Wetenskaplike realisme en realisme vir die sosiale wetenskappe. Chapter 10 in Wetenskapbeelde in die geesteswetenskappe by Snyman, J.J. (ed).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 978-07969-1689-1).

Mouton, J. and Muller, J.P. (1995). A typology of shifts in intellectual formations in South Africa. In South Africa and Poland in transition: A comparative perspective by Van Beek, U. (ed).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 978-0-7969-1659-4).

Mouton, J. & Pienaar, M. (1995). Human sciences research in the government sector. Chapter 4 in Directory of Human Sciences Research Organizations and Professional Associations in South Africa by Van der Berg, H.; Prinsloo, R. & Pienaar, D. (eds).. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. (ISBN 0-7969-1715-9).

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