Collaboration Research on Psychology in India and South Africa with Other Countries: A Comparative Study

This study examines the collaborative research interests of Indian and South African sources that support the advancement of research in the field of psychology.This investigative study using primary essential data sources gathered from the Web of Science (WoS) period 2001 to 2020, India published 12543 papers with 96871 citations and South Africa published 9938 papers with 121385 citations in the discipline of psychology.Both countries experienced all years with relatively low publication numbers but high citation counts; notably in the year 2010, both countries received high citations.This suggests that both countries have produced influential research, even with limited output in certain years.Both countries saw a significant decline in publications in the year 2020, which may have been caused by a number of factors like the COVID-19 epidemic or other outside impacts.The 133 nations produced collaborated published articles with India, and while 28 countries non-cited papers published.According to the findings and 139 countries collaborated with South Africa to publish research papers and 59 countries