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Item African web-based animal health informationLwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem African Web-Based Animal Health Information: Analysis Of Online DatabasesLwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem African Web-Based Animal Health Information: Analysis Of Online DatabasesLwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Contribution of mobile phones to rural livelihoods and poverty reduction in Morogoro Region, Tanzania(The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC)) Sife, Alfred Said; Kiondo, Elizabeth; Lyimo-Macha, Joyce G.Item Impacts of quality antecedents on faculty members’ acceptance of electronic resources(College of Business Education) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Impacts of quality antecedents on faculty members’ acceptance of electronic resources(College of Business Education) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Mapping the research productivity and scholarly impact of the traditional medicine scholars in Tanzania: A scientometric analysis(International Journal of Digital Library Services) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Online information seeking behaviour among people living with HIV in selected public hospitals of Tanzania(College of Business Education) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Nagu, Tumaini; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Online information seeking behaviour among people living with HIV in selected public hospitals of Tanzania(College of Business Education) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Nagu, Tumaini; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Online information seeking behaviour among people living with HIV in selected public hospitals of Tanzania(College of Business Education) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Nagu, Tumaini; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania A scientometric analysis(New Library World) Sife, Alfred Said; Lwoga, Edda TandiItem Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania A scientometric analysis(New Library World) Sife, Alfred Said; Lwoga, Edda TandiItem Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania: a scientometric analysisSife, Alfred Said; Lwoga, Edda TandiItem Publication productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania: a scientometric analysis(2014-06-13) Sife, Alfred Said; Lwoga, Edda TandiPurpose – The purpose of this scientometric study was to conduct an analysis of the research productivity and scholarly impact of academic librarians in Tanzania for a period of 30 years from 1984 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained using the Publish or Perish software which uses Google Scholar to retrieve scholars’ publications, citations and related metrics. For each librarian, the retrieved metrics were the number of papers, papers per author, citation counts, average citations per paper, average papers per author, average citations per year, average citations per author and four indices, namely, the h-index, g-index, Hc-index and the HI-norm. Findings – The study findings indicate that 434 publications were recorded for all librarians, giving an average of 14.5 publications per year. The year 2008 had the most (9.9 per cent) publications followed by 2010 (7.8 per cent), while the years 1985 and 1987 had the lowest (0.2 per cent) number of publications. About 43 per cent of the publications were single-authored and the degree of collaboration was 0.57. The top-ten ranked librarians contributed more than half (53.2 per cent) of all publications, although they showed considerable variation among different metrics. Only three journal articles had 25 or more citations. Originality/value – Previous studies on the topic are scarce, and, therefore, this paper provides useful recommendations to library and information science (LIS) schools, libraries and universities to improve research productivity of their academic librarians in Tanzania and other countries with a similar setting.Item Research productivity and Web Visibility of Dental Faculty in Tanzania: A scientometric analysis(College of Business Education) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Research productivity and Web Visibility of Dental Faculty in Tanzania: A scientometric analysis(College of Business Education) Lwoga, Edda Tandi; Sife, Alfred SaidItem Retrieving vanished Web references in health science journals in East Africa(Emerald Publishing Limited) Sife, Alfred Said; Lwoga, Edda TandiItem Retrieving vanished Web references in health science journals in East Africa(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017-07-06) Sife, Alfred Said; Lwoga, Edda TandiThis study aims to examine the availability and persistence of universal resource locators (URLs) cited in scholarly articles published in selected health journals based in East Africa. Design/methodology/approach – Four health sciences online journals in East Africa were selected for this study. In this study, all Web citations in the selected journal articles covering the 2001-2015 period were extracted. This study explored the number of URLs used as citations, determined the rate of URLs’ loss, identified error messages associated with inaccessible URLs, identified the top domain levels of decayed URLs, calculated the half-life of the Web citations and determined the proportion of recovered URL citations through the Internet Wayback Machine. Findings – In total, 822 articles were published between 2001 and 2015. There were in total 17,609 citations of which, only 574 (3.3 per cent) were Web citations. The findings show that 253 (44.1 per cent) Web citations were inaccessible and the “404 File Not Found” error message was the most (88.9 per cent) encountered. Top- level domains with country endings had the most (23.7 per cent) missing URLs. The average half-life for the URLs cited in journal articles was 10.5 years. Only 36 (6.3 per cent) Web references were recovered through the Wayback Machine. Originality/value – This is a comprehensive study of East African health sciences online journals that provides findings that raises questions as to whether URLs should continue to be included as part of bibliographic details in the lists of references. It also calls for concerted efforts from various actors in overcoming the problem of URL decay.