#via:jonny

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Interactive data visualisations, created via d3.js, which facilitate an exploration of disease burden

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There is a powerful African- born diaspora in North America and its members have much to offer their home continent. How should this relationship be crafted?

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Africa is a developing continent but there's ample opportunity for careers in science that can contribute to science advancement as well as uplifting the socio-economic status of the continent.

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Thomson Reuters' 2010 report on scientific output of Africa as indexed by WoS. Only goes as far as publication counts and collaboration clusters.

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Breakdown of deaths in Africa as of 2012, summarised in an infographic.

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In the future, studies might focus more specifically on the kind of research published in SSA, such as clinical versus epidemiological; the nature of the readership of SSA publications; and the ways priorities are set by SSA journal editorial boards. Finally Sub-Saharan African universities and research institutions might contemplate altering their practice of giving academic credit exclusively for publications in high-profile international journals and might consider giving equal weight to publishing in national journals that have been indexed in international, credible databases such as MEDLINE.