A Bibliographic Assessment Using the Degrees of Publication Method: Medicinal Plants from the Rural Greater Mpigi Region (Uganda)

Table 2

Literature survey overview: DoPs and individual categories; number = total number of journal articles published for a certain DoP category, (COPE) = number of journal articles from publishing houses with COPE membership.

Plant species	Degree of publication (DOP)
	Traditional use	Bioactivity	Structure elucidation	Other	Total (without “other”)
	Number (COPE)	Number (COPE)	Number (COPE)	Number (COPE)	Number (COPE)
Albizia coriaria	11 (9)	4 (4)	2 (2)	9 (5)	17 (15)
Cassine buchananii	2 (1)	1 (1)	3 (3)	1 (1)	6 (5)
Combretum molle	8 (7)	30 (15)	11 (6)	21 (8)	49 (28)
Erythrina abyssinica	18 (9)	7 (2)	16 (11)	7 (4)	41 (22)
Ficus saussureana	1 (1)	1 (1)	1 (1)	2 (2)	3 (3)
Harungana madagascariensis	11 (5)	38 (12)	13 (10)	11 (2)	62 (27)
Leucas calostachys	9 (3)	3 (1)	—	1 (-)	12 (4)
Microgramma lycopodioides	2 (1)	—	—	61 (25)	2 (1)
Morella kandtiana	2 (2)	—	—	—	2 (2)
Plectranthus hadiensis	3 (2)	13 (2)	6 (3)	24 (13)	22 (7)
Securidaca longipedunculata	28 (16)	26 (8)	12 (8)	13 (1)	66 (32)
Sesamum calycinum subsp. angustifolium	4 (3)	—	1 (1)	9 (8)	5 (4)
Solanum aculeastrum	6 (5)	10 (7)	6 (2)	3 (2)	22 (14)
Toddalia asiatica	15 (6)	21 (12)	28 (21)	9 (8)	64 (39)
Warburgia ugandensis	8 (7)	15 (5)	14 (11)	16 (11)	37 (23)
Zanthoxylum chalybeum	11 (9)	17 (8)	2 (2)	6 (3)	30 (19)