RIG provides a portal for UKZN research output, supervision and maintaining researcher profiles. Log in with your UKZN login details. Clicking on the RIG portal link above will take you to a useful page of guides, videos, ethical clearance forms and registration information.
The RIG online help and help desk are located at the bottom of the Research Office home page
"As a government mandated research and science development agency the NRF funds research, the development of high-end Human Capacity and critical research infrastructure to promote knowledge production across all disciplinary fields. The goal of the NRF is to create innovative funding instruments, advance research career development, increase public science engagement and to establish leading-edge research platforms that will transform the scientific landscape and inspire a representative research community to aspire to global competitiveness. The NRF promotes South African research and innovation interests across the country and internationally, and together with research institutions, business, industry and international partners we build bridges between research communities for mutual benefit that contributes to National Development."
"The NRF rating system is a key driver in the NRF’s aim to build a globally competitive science system in South Africa. It is a valuable tool for benchmarking the quality of our researchers against the best in the world. NRF ratings are allocated based on a researcher’s recent research outputs and impact as perceived by international peer reviewers. The rating system encourages researchers to publish high quality outputs in high impact journals/outlets. Rated researchers as supervisors will impart cutting-edge skills to the next generation of researchers.
The rating of individuals is based primarily on the quality and impact of their research outputs over the past eight years, taking into consideration the evaluation made by local and international peers. It identifies researchers who count among the leaders in their fields of expertise and gives recognition to those who constantly produce high quality research outputs. Several South African universities use the outcomes of the NRF evaluation and rating process to position themselves as research-intensive institutions, while others provide incentives for their staff members to acquire and maintain a rating and give special recognition to top-rated researchers."
On the ratings page you will also find a list of rated researchers on a spreadsheet
NRF funding overview booklet and general application guide and other useful information is provided at this page.
ASSAF: Academy of Science of South Africa
ASSAF's scholarly publishing programme aims to "enhance the national capacity to produce and publish research, on the one hand, and to increase the quality and visibility of South African research publications, on the other." Its Committee on Scholarly Publishing focuses on "scholarly publishing all its forms, as well as related matters that concern access to copyrighted materials, quality assurance of scholarly output, questionable publishing practices, peer review, open science and open access publishing models, and standards in and from South Africa"
ASSAF publishes reports of its activities. ASSAF periodically evaluates SA journals; has policies on open access, open science, best practices for peer review and a newsletter; supports SciELO the open access database of SA journals and an open access database Khulisa journals