African Studies Toolbox

The Bukavu Series online exhibition explores the power dynamics between researchers from the Global North and the Global South.

The Journal Impact Factor is not appropriate for measuring the quality of academic work, especially in African Studies.

The Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings is included in the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme ethics guidance.

The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance promote indigenous control of indigenous data

Jane Lawrence Sumner's Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT) helps to automatically evaluate the (probabilistic) gender of each name on a reading list and then providing an estimate of what percentag…

Check out the International Africa Institute (IAI) for guidelines on co-publishing in the African continent.

Would you like to read and cite more works by Africa-based scholars? The SIS African Studies focuses on the acquisition of literature published on the African continent.

We'd like to highlight the Scholarly Kitchen guest post "Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Peer Review in Africa".

The COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers aim to provide guidance and raise awareness of ethical obligations of reviewers. These guidelines are intended to be applied across disciplines.

The Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaborations will serve to advance and uphold the continent’s contribution to the global production of knowledge.