Link to Diva (available 3 weeks before the d efence)
The defence will be held in English.

The examining committee members are associate professor Jonas Lindahl from Um eå university\, professor Göran Sundqvist from University of Gothenburg and professor Merle Jacob from Lunds University.

Supervisor is Björn Hammarfelt.
The defence is publicly open and can be followed on campus\, room: C203. It can also be followed o nline\, here is the zoom link: (will be presented later on)

Abstract
This thesis investigates the production\, visibility\, and use of agricultural research in Mozambique by focusing on three interconnected dimensions: (i) the coverage of Africa n scientific literature in major bibliographic databases\; (ii) the themat ic and structural characteristics of agricultural research in Sub-Saharan Africa\, with a specific focus on Mozambique\; and (iii) the degree to whi ch this research is cited and mobilized in agricultural policy-related doc uments. Using a combination of bibliometric methods and content analysis o f policy documents\, the study analyses how agricultural research is gener ated\, represented in major databases\, and mobilized in policy-related do cuments.
The study consists of three linked empirical analyses. The f irst analysis compares the coverage of a dataset of 837 African journals d rawn from African Journals Online (AJOL) across Web of Science (WoS)\, Sco pus\, Dimensions\, and OpenAlex. The second part focuses on the analysis o f the production of research on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa and Moza mbique between 2000 and 2020\, with special attention to a comparison betw een WoS and OpenAlex data for conducting bibliometric analysis in the case of Mozambique. The third part analyses 98 policy and policy-related docum ents collected from the Ministry of Agriculture and other agricultural ins titutions to examine whether and how academic literature is cited and mobi lized in these texts. It combines content analysis with citation context a nalysis to identify the types of sources referenced and the functions perf ormed by cited academic literature in policy documents.
The findings show that African research remains underrepresented in selective internati onal databases such as WoS and Scopus\, while more inclusive platforms suc h as Dimensions and OpenAlex capture a wider range of African journals ind exed in African Journals Online (AJOL). Of the 837 AJOL journals\, Dimensi ons covers 663 and OpenAlex 477\, compared with 147 in Scopus and 94 in Wo S. However\, broader coverage does not substantially alter the trend ident ified in previous research on African science: South Africa\, Nigeria\, Et hiopia\, and Kenya continue to dominate production\, collaboration\, and v isibility. In agricultural research specifically\, the regional landscape remains marked by international collaboration and thematic focus on farmin g\, food security\, and climate-related topics. In Mozambique\, Eduardo Mo ndlane University (UEM) stands out as the main actor in agricultural resea rch\, sustaining collaboration networks with regional partners and Europea n countries and institutions.
The analysis of agricultural policy d ocuments reveals that technical reports and grey literature play a central role alongside academic sources. Of 1\,216 references identified in the p olicy corpus\, 103 (8.5%) were academic sources. Citations appear mostly i n organic and confirmative roles\, while direct engagement with local acad emic publications is limited. Citations provide observable traces of resea rch use\, but they do not by themselves demonstrate how research agendas o r policy decisions were shaped.
By combining database coverage anal ysis\, bibliometric analysis\, and citation context analysis\, the thesis examines how agricultural research is made visible in bibliographic databa ses and represented in policy documents in Mozambique. The thesis also con tributes to discussions of research use beyond academia by showing that po licy documents are spaces where academic\, technical\, and institutional k nowledge are brought together and mobilized\, rather than simple channels through which scientific findings are transferred into policymaking.