4.3 Publication distribution on a country basis
To identify the publication distribution on a country basis, we used the
first author and/or the corresponding authors to represent the country
we tied the article to. Our primary interest was in the country in which
their institution of affiliation was located. Figure 3 shows the
distribution of publications by country basis. Surprisingly, Canada and
Germany have the highest number of publications on geophysical
investigations in the Bosumtwi Impact Crater. Researchers associated
with institutions in Canada have authored 25% of the articles, whereas
authors affiliated with German institutions have 21% of the articles.
Researchers affiliated with Ghanaian institutions come in third place
with 13 % of the articles. Other countries represented are Rwanda,
France, Finland, Austria, Russia, South
Africa and Estonia. InFigure 3b, we observe that on a global scale, whereas only
thirteen (13%) of the published studies on the Bosumtwi impact crater
were authored by researchers from Ghana, eighty-seven percent (87%) of
the geophysical studies on the Bosumtwi impact crater were authored by
researchers affiliated to institutions from outside Ghana. Out of this,
eighty-seven percent (87 %), eight (8 %) are by scientists from other
African countries.