Re-imagining social work education in East Africa

Figures & data

Table 1. Number of reviewed publications, sorted by category.

	Rwanda	Tanzania	Uganda	Norway
Books and book chapters	234 (90%)	213 (68%)	463 (72%)	135 (60.5%)
Scientific journal articles	10 (4%)	55 (17%)	42 (6.5%)	34 (15%)
Reports (both published and unpublished)	4 (1.5%)	8 (2.5%)	18 (3%)	5 (2%)
Legal literature (e.g. laws, acts, conventions and declarations)	4 (1.5%)	11 (3.5)	9 (1.5%)	47 (21%)
Handbooks, manuals and guidelines	3 (1%)	19 (6%)	7 (1%)	1 (0.5%)
Other	6 (2%)	9 (3%)	103 (16%)	1 (0.5%)
Total number of publications (N)	261	315	642	223^4

Table 2. Year of publication (%).

	Rwanda (N=261)	Tanzania (N=315)	Uganda (N=642)	Norway (N=223)
Before 1980	9.6%	6.3%	4.4%	4.9%
1980–1989	14.2%	6%	12.9%	2.6%
1990–1999	31.4%	23.8%	30.3%	5.3%
2000–2009	23.8%	42.5%	26.4%	13%
2010–2019	20.7%	20%	26.1%	61%
2020 –	0.4%	1.3%	0.4%	13.2%
	100	100	100	100

Table 3. Language of publication (incl. translated material) (%).

Rwanda (N=261)			Tanzania (N=315)		Uganda (N=642)		Norway (N=223)
English	French	Kinyarwanda	English	Swahili	English	Other	English	Norwegian^7
96.5%	2.7%	0.8%	99.7%	0.3%	100%	0	6.3%	93.7%

Table 4. Nationality of first authors of publications. Share (%) of publications with a named author (N1).

Rwanda (N1=253)		Tanzania (N1=267)		Uganda (N1=587)		Norway (N1=176)
Rwandan	African	Tanzanian	African	Ugandan	African	Norwegian	European
n=10	n=5	n=53	n=4	n=56	n=22	n=159	n=12
4%	2%	19.9%	1.5%	9.5%	3.7%	90.3%	6,8%

Table 5. Origin of first authors of publications. Share (%) of publications with a named author (N1).

	Rwanda (N1=253)	Tanzania (N1=267)	Uganda (N1=587)	Norway (N1=176)
North American	59.7%	42.7%	48%	2.8%
British	12.6%	21,0%	23%	1.1%
Other European	12.6%	11,6%	10.1%	96%
African	7.9%	21.4%	13.3%	0%
Asian	1.6%	2,6%	2.9%	0%
Oceanian	4.3%	0,7%	1.9%	0%
Latin-American	1.2%	0%	0.9%	0%
	100	100	100	100

Table 6. Gender of first authors of publications. Share (%) of publications with a named author (N1).

Rwanda (N1=253)		Tanzania (N1=267)		Uganda (N1=587)		Norway (N1=176)
Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
n=190	n=63	n=209	n=58	n=423	n=164	n=68	n=108
75%	25%	78.3%	21.7%	72%	28%	39%	61%

Table 7. Empirical data from national or different African contexts. Share (%) of total number of publications (N).

Rwanda (N=261)		Tanzania (N=315)		Uganda (N=642)		Norway (N=223)
Rwandan	African	Tanzanian	African	Ugandan	African	Norwegian
n=16	n=12	n=72	n=8	n=74	n=47	n=118
6.1%	4.6%	22.9%	2.5%	11.5%	7.3%	52.9%