DapoBear:

Two comments:
1) Seems you left out any mention/praise for the other 44 authors of this book, many of whom are Nigerians.
2) The publisher is called "Information Science Reference", and this seems to be an imprint of the company giving out the award (see their list of imprints here: http://www.igi-global.com/Books/BookInformation/Imprints.aspx). Not really clear how much value an award of this sort has.

igbobuigbo:

No matter. The book and the ensuing award may not be important to you but certainly is to those in the field of nanotechnology and microelectronics

The guy was two things rolled in one per the book. He was an author as well as the editor of the book.

Please google him to know more about him. Simply the most educated Nigerian out there.

DapoBear:

The book may be of value. But the award isn't, since it is given by the very company publishing the book. Surely you see the conflict of interest.
The editor of a book gets almost zero credit for the book. The editor is not the one who wrote each of the 20 chapters, he is simply the one who proofread it, arranged the ordering, perhaps culled the 20 chapters listed from possibly a larger number of submissions.
Questionable assertion, and irrelevant to this discussion.

igbobuigbo:

IGI presumably published tons of books in 2010 and this one was chosen among those as the best. How is that conflict of interest when they published all the books used in the award?

He was not just the editor, he was also a co-author

My assertion is not questionable until you show me any other Nigerian with 4 MS and 2 PhD degrees in the broad engineering field, one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult subject area. The guy is already manufacturing PCs- google Ovim Tablet PC or something like that

stranger:

Chapter 25: Emerging Technology Penetration: The case of Solar Electricity in Nigeria
Jesuleye O. Aquila, National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria
Siyanbola W. Owol[/b]abi, National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria
[b]Ilori M. Olugbemiga, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

Yorubas

igbobuigbo:

Now you still drag your usual childish tribalism into this? How many Igbos were on the list or your eyes dey see only Yoruba names?

stranger:

You are a big fool

He is Ibo, it makes sense that he would invite his fellow incompetent Igbos to join in his charade

The point I am making is that  that there are no Igbos knowledgeable enough to cover the breadth of the book; Hence, the need for him to invite the ever superior Yorubas

If it were a Yoruba book, there wont be need to invite Igbos!
That my friend is the difference!

igbobuigbo:

Now you still drag your usual childish tribalism into this? How many Igbos were on the list or your eyes dey see only Yoruba names? For somebody who does not even know how to write Ph.D, where you wan start from?

DapoBear:

I'm not questioning his intelligence or capability, he seems like a sharp guy. And being a TED fellow is quite an accomplishment. But there are plenty of Nigerians who have similar or better achievements (honestly, just google around a bit.)

In any case, those achievements are not relevant to the discussion at hand, namely the merit of this award.

stranger:

It is Ph.D., not Ph.D
Ode!

Hope you see the difference, anuofia!

stranger:

Chapter 25: Emerging Technology Penetration: The case of Solar Electricity in Nigeria
Jesuleye O. Aquila, National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria
Siyanbola W. Owol[/b]abi, National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria
[b]Ilori M. Olugbemiga, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

Yorubas

Chapter 18: Technology Adoption and Economic Development: Trajectories within the African Agricultural Industry
Taiwo E. Mafimisebi, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria

The so called editor only wrote a chapter, what a numbskull; I read somewhere that his Phd from JH is not legit
Word on the street is that he cheated his way through gradschool. Anyway, I am not surprised.

Chapter 1: Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: The Science, Trends and Global
Diffusion
Ndubuisi Ekekwe, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Onlytruth:

Sharrap dia, Atulu Yoruba!

stranger:

May be you should learn to spell first before you jump in on a conversation that is clearly over your head

Your mates are in Alaba, not on NL!

Onlytruth:

And your mates are hunting heads for gbomo gbomo in the bushes of Ijebuland. Omo ale.
Did you wash your nyash this morning? It stinks and I can smell it from here.

igbobuigbo:

You will have to do the googling to prove me wrong

If the award is irrelevant, the publishers will not be giving it. It is like a father giving an award to his kids for best-behaved child of the year and you ask the old man the relevance of his award. IGI gave an award to the best book it published in 2010 and you sit here asking what the relevance is? What is the relevance of any award except to those involved?

igbobuigbo:

Plus, JHU is among the best schools in the US

DapoBear:

^-- This should tell you a bit about the quality of this book publishing company. When you perform research, you submit it to a leading journal in your field. It is then reviewed anonymously by experts in your field (in my own area, usually 2 or 3 reviewers), then accepted or rejected for publication in the journal. If your work is first-rate, then your paper will be heavily cited and used by your field. Later on down the line, you might publish it in a book. And not a random book company like this one, but you'd choose one of the more prestigious ones specially targeted for your area.

Anyway, you've made much ado about nothing, really.

DapoBear:

In biosciences and medicine it is very strong, but in most other areas fairly weak. In particular, it is not a first-tier school in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, UIllinois are probably considered the first tier. Cornell and Princeton are very good too. Schools like GaTech, UMich, UTexas are also very strong. There are lots of good schools in the US, but only a handful are considered the best.

igbobuigbo:

You then do not know how book publishing works. Most, indeed, all book chapters (such as this one) published are not peer reviewed. Experts who can stand their own in the field are usually invited by publishing companies to write book chapters which are then collated and edited by an editor, also a very prominent expert in the field. Only journal articles are peer-reviewed by experts.

Just so you know, I have written more than 20 first-author peer-reviewed articles in international journals including the prestigious ES&T and I have about 5 book chapters as co-authors. This is no withstanding that I am still an upcoming scientist in my field. So you are in no position to tell me how scientific publishing is done.

You also lie. You cannot publish already published work even of your own in its entirety, except specific data of which you need the permission of the journal to do so. Comprend?

DapoBear:

So you yourself know that the editor of a book gets almost zero credit for the book. Why then did you spin it as the work of a single man, rather than of 45 authors?
Yes, book chapters are not peer reviewed. But at least in my area, they are either (A) literature survey papers (B) essentially modifications/more accessible rewrites of previously peer-reviewed work.
Thus if high-quality research work is appearing in say book chapter form, it falls under case (B).
Are these conference papers or journal papers? In my field, there is a distinction between the two. And at my school, the goals are a bit different; we aim for quality over quantity. Publishing one journal-quality paper every 1.5 or 2 years is pretty typical; most guys have 2 or 3 such by the time they receive their PhD.
Your field seems to differ quite a bit in publishing frequency.
No, this isn't quite true. I usually write the manuscript first, something which I and my coauthors entirely retain copyright over. Afterwards, we massage that manuscript into a form suitable for the publisher. It is this latter document which we give up the copyright to.
Now, of course I cannot massage/resubmit this same manuscript to another publication. But I can of course use it as a chapter in a thesis, or massage it into a book chapter (with more citations and rewritten for accessibility.)
For example, my own advisor, he wrote 3 or 4 very good papers, selected some to assemble into a thesis, and later this thesis won a fairly prestigious award and was published as a book (not by some fly-by night book company, but by the book division of his university.)