Abstract:
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.
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
