Research foci of computing research in South Africa as reflected by publications in the South African computer journal

Abstract

The South African Computer Journal, better known as SACJ, has, for the last nineteen years, been one of the most pertinent publications for the computing discipline within the South African milieu. In this paper the authors reflect on the topics of research articles published in SACJ over its first 40 volumes of the journal using the ACM Computing Classification Scheme as basis. In their analysis the authors divided the publications into three cycles of more or less six years in order to identify significant trends over the history of the journal. They also used the same classification scheme to analyse the publication trends of various South African tertiary education and research institutions