LordIsaac:
Where has all the research so far taken us? This is a country where a so called professor could not conduct a free and fair election... We stand for nothing!

HigherEd:

Important point!
But applied research which you are referring to cost billions of naira. The US govt spends about N800 Billion on John Hopkins University's medical research alone. JHU anchors much of America's Medical research aspirations.

The US spends about 400 billion on Georgia Inst Of Tech.GIT anchors America's defense technology aspirations. And it goes on and on like that.

Summary of it all is that if you want cutting edge research the govt has to spend. But considering that the likes of Harvard, Stanford all use Scopus then its a good indication of where the strengths of our universities lie.

Let me give you a further breakdown, much of UI's research output is in medical sciences. UI does poorly in engineering on the other hand. A serious govt can make UI a flagship university for Nigeria's medical research. With increase in funding they would definitely be able to get the applied aspect of their research right and produce drugs that can be of benefit to the Nigerian people. With the poor level of research funding in Nigeria all you can do is analyse a problem and recommend solutions. The funding to create is just not there.

lereinter:

buhari with no presentable certificate is president

while a professor is his deputy

what's Nigeria minimum qualification to become president

kolaaderin:
with miracle centres. Their Universities are not measuring up because the intake students are mostly miracle centre , products.

KingOfAllIgbos:


LazyGold you crushed this fool and seguno2

calberian:
Even with the Op’s lies/semi-illiteracy, whichever the case is, covenant cannot even come within a mile of UI’s reach.

Covenant was founded in 2002 and by 2017, had recorded about 550 pubs (according to the Op).

That’s an average of about 36 pubs annually.

However, the Op posits that the output from covenant hit 1100 by 2018 making the output for the period 2017-2018 at least equal to the cumulative output of the school from its inception in 2002 to 2017!

I probably don’t have a good understanding about these things but these figures look heavily skewed.

Frenchkiss564:


Well, I'm sure you know the answer it is nepotism. ABU despite being the most funded university in Nigeria is the worst performing among the first generation universities. It is the only first generation university without presence on the Times Higher Education Ranking. It is really a pity.

Chukwuka16:
Again,

I always laugh when I see posts like these.

Can the OP kindly browse Researchgate and Google Scholar just to highlight the RG score and h/I-index of leading scholars across UI, UNN and CU/Lautech. I believe the difference will be clearly seen.

The quality of outputs from the federal universities and some state universities is miles ahead of private universities.

Matter of fact, academics from these mainline universities output excellent papers in very top rated journals from Lancet (those UCH guys) to Science to Nature (collaborations) and the normal elsevier versions (typical IF around 4-10) without much fuss.

It's great to celebrate small successes but let's not over hype something that isn't really quality. Scopus in 2019? Let's do better.

HigherEd:

Now you are no longer talking like an academic. Researchgate is a compilation of research work done since a university was founded. The oldest private university in Nigeria was founded in 1999. The oldest public was founded in 1945. How would you actually compare the two systems and think public universities wouldn't rank higher?

Regarding academics it is still a matter of normalization. 32 departments in CU producing 3 high rated academics is equal to 100 departments in UI producing 10 high rated academics.

DonroxyII:
As an Academic (M.sc from Unilorin 2013-2016) , I have conducted quite number of academic research myself and I can tell you .. Convenant University has the best research paper I have ever seen online ...... Even their published B.sc research project is a top notch that contains all necessary ingredients of research and beyond and if you see their PhD thesis ... wow .... wow ... wow .....
and so is there academic papers!!

I have not seen it all @my level, but the with what I have seen , CU is my best in terms of Academic Research in Nigeria.

Immediately I saw this thread, all my mind was set at Convenant as Number 1 based on What I have seen myself .....

I am a Unilorite and even a Muslim with no attachment to Convenant University but that school is really serious about Academic/Research and if Nigeria is gonna be great, Most schools should demand same standard from their resources as Convenant !!!

I really wish they should improve their TECH and be the MIT of Nigeria .... dem dey try abeg !!

papyskinsy:
if OAU is not on dat list consider that list fake cause we do pure and applied RESEARCH in OBA AWON UNIVERSITY Gbam.. those doing MSc or PhD can relate

asuustrike1:

After UI comes OAU. The picture below explains further

9jaRealist:


What “rules” are they trying to enforce? How people should dress or wear their hairstyles?
Nonsense Nigerians chasing shadows, when even at Harvard or Cal-Tech, you will see profs with Rasta hair. SMDH

HigherEd:

Everything the researchers wrote about are readily accessible on Scopus itself. Scopus and web of science are the most cited indexing platforms.

HigherEd:

Now you are no longer talking like an academic. Researchgate is a compilation of research work done since a university was founded. The oldest private university in Nigeria was founded in 1999. The oldest public was founded in 1945. How would you actually compare the two systems and think public universities wouldn't rank higher?

Regarding academics it is still a matter of normalization. 32 departments in CU producing 3 high rated academics is equal to 100 departments in UI producing 10 high rated academics. What about the fact that certain fields are more funded and researched than the other? UI with medical offerings would definitely produce more cited research papers.

Only an expert consultant can give you a full proof assessment of universities. And Times higher is one of such organizations. And from its verdict CU is more research relevant than UI and UNN.

LazyGold:


But UI lead UNN and UI is in the South West, that's my point

IFEOLUWAKRIZ:


Excuse sir? You are using the region these universities are located at as parameter to judge which tribe is leading in education? It must be important to note that most of these unis have good number of lecturers and students from all tribes? I'm not an armchair journalist. I school at UI and we all know how this mentioned factor is contributing to UI's academic progress. Let's for once drop tribalistic inclined views and praise our achievements as one Nigeria we claim to be.

LazyGold:


This is not about tribalism, best institutions in South West is just a mere prove that South West are not lagging behind in Education

asuustrike1:

After UI comes OAU. The picture below explains further

HigherEd:

Now you are no longer talking like an academic. Researchgate is a compilation of research work done since a university was founded. The oldest private university in Nigeria was founded in 1999. The oldest public was founded in 1945. How would you actually compare the two systems and think public universities wouldn't rank higher?

Regarding academics it is still a matter of normalization. 32 departments in CU producing 3 high rated academics is equal to 100 departments in UI producing 10 high rated academics. What about the fact that certain fields are more funded and researched than the other? UI with medical offerings would definitely produce more cited research papers.

Only an expert consultant can give you a full proof assessment of universities. And Times higher is one of such organizations. And from its verdict CU is more research relevant than UI and UNN.

spectroscopic:


The bolded is false. Researchgate does not have any information about the number of publications from a university. What it has is information about individual author publications record, regardless of which university the papers were published from. For instance, if you were with UNN and published 5 articles, and then transferred to UI and published another 5 articles, Researchgate does not indicate which are from UI or UNN. It shows that you have published 10 papers and it gives you an RG score based on the quality, citation, reads, and other indices of your papers and your overall research profile.

Chukwuka16:


Sir, did you know that the boldened is false. See
https://www.researchgate.net/institution/University_of_Ibadan
And
https://www.researchgate.net/institution/Covenant_University_Ota_Ogun_State_Nigeria
The above shows that UI has a research impact that is about 200% that of CU based on quality!

CodeTemplar:
Hmmm...so they should allow a student with rasta to attend a Christian principled school just because Harvard have relaxed theirs.

spectroscopic:


Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It must either be a new development, or I completely missed it. I have been on ResearchGate (RG) for more than 9 years now and never noticed that until now. Thanks, Man. We learn everyday.

Anyways, the links for UI and CU (the supposed best universities) show clearly that the quality of research from Nigeria is near-zero. Divide the total RG score by the number of RG members from each school. For UI you get an average RG score of 3.3 (12,896.98/3879); for CU you get an average RG score of 1.5 (4730/3150).

That of UNN is also a paltry score of 2.1 (14,114/6751). See link https://www.researchgate.net/institution/University_of_Nigeria2

However, an institutional RG score of 14111 for UNN and of 12896 for UI indicates that UNN as an institution has more quality research than UI. But a few specific UI professors are doing more quality research than specific professors from UNN. In other words, the good quality research at UNN is diluted by the number of too many poor quality research.

At Ife (OAU), the research quality is very poor (compared to UI and UNN) at an institutional RG score of only of 8610. https://www.researchgate.net/institution/Obafemi_Awolowo_University. But then, the fewer number of researchers there at 1818 increases their average RG score to 4.74. This also means that with that few number of researchers compared to UI and UNN, many professors at OAU are simply not doing any research.


Now, compare UI, CU, UNN and OAU average scores with my own individual RG score of 32.43 (I covered my photo and name, and deleted part of my university identity for privacy) beginning from 2008 when I started independent science publishing. If I was an institution I am far better than them. Lol. Of course, a few researchers in these schools, like the ones you mentioned (I looked then up), have better RG scores than the average for their schools. But overall, it shows the extent of poor quality research from Nigeria. Now I understand why the country is not progressing.

Bottom line: when your president is a sub-school cert holder, how can you do any meaningful research that will help develop your country?

9jaRealist:


If you want a Christian school, you will see students at Notre Dame with dreadlocks as well (a natural state of hair btw). A university is NOT a seminary or convent, it is supposed to be a place of academic and intellectual freedom, inquiry and training - and a component of such freedom is being free to be DIFFERENT! Furthermore, universities are supposed to prepare one to be functional in a real world of diversity and while rules are important in the real world ephemeral rules bordering largely in individual tastes amounts to nonsensical shadow-chasing. SMH

CodeTemplar:
Stay there and be talking pure rubbish about how rasta hairstyle is part of one useless creativity. If you want to do rasta, there are many useless and open campuses that allow those and even allow gangsterism.
The private schools have their visions and it will be stupid for a student to gain admission and start demanding that the school change rules so their peers can regard them as big boys.

Chukwuka16:


Sir, did you know that the boldened is false. See
https://www.researchgate.net/institution/University_of_Ibadan
And
https://www.researchgate.net/institution/Covenant_University_Ota_Ogun_State_Nigeria
The above shows that UI has a research impact that is about 200% that of CU based on quality!