ABSTRACT: Research is a determinantfor global impact, and societal development revolves around quality research. The hub of institutional development is based on the fundamental principle of synergetic state of collaboration of sound research tied to industryand other area of human endeavours which has a clear cut of supervise regulations. Sub-Saharan Africais considered to be a developing region and its role in the development of infrastructures and other critical infrastructures has been engendered in the past due to none-synergetic state of research collaboration among researchers, regulating agencies and industry. However, recent studies have asserted that researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa have increased its state of collaboration and this is gear towards actualization.....
Keywords: Clustering, google scholar, Sub-Saharan, Africa, Density-Based, Analysis, Research
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