The federal government-owned institution trailed four South African and one Ugandan university in the list. of top 30 schools.Noting that the ranking is. “essentially based on the amount of citations there are for the university’s work”, WEF quoted Times Higher Education, THE, as noting that the universities are “derived from the methodology for the current world university ranking, using the 13 factors (below), combining THE’s own enormous database of statistics along with the Elsevier’s Scopus database – a system that highlights some of the continent’s top performers in terms of how often research papers are referred to and cited by other academics globally.

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