₦airaland Forum

ethicallyright:
Op just wanted to tell us about covenant University.

He's paid to do that.


Paper research means nothing these days.

Covenant just employed a long time lecturer as an adjunct just to break the nonsense record that contributes nothing to our economy.

HigherEd:
SciVal is an online tool that offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 7,000 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide using bibliometrics.

According to the computation by SciVal, featuring the scholarly output of the top 500 authors in Nigeria over the period 2015 to 2020, saw Professor Sanjay emerging tops with 233 scholarly output, 414 citations, and 17 h-index.

It is also remarkable that Gods own University, Covenant, can proudly flaunt her reputation as the best research institution in Nigeria as 5 of the top 10 authors in the list are faculty from the University.

While Professor Misra of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering led the pack of top 500 authors by publication volume since 2015, another prolific author in Covenant, Dr Sunday Ojo Fayomi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was No.3 in the rankings with 225 scholarly output, 619 citations, and 17 h-index.

Dr Moses Emetere of the Department of Physics was ranked No.4 with 211 scholarly output, 384 citations, and 12 h-index. Other were Dr Hilary Okagbue of the Department of Physics on the 6th spot with 142 citations, 846 citations, and 15 h-index; and Professor Roland Loto, nestled on No.8 with 133 scholarly output, 446 citations, and 16 h-index.

Other covenant authors able to make the top 20 included the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor AAA. Atayero of the Department of electrical and information engineering, who emerged 11th with 111 scholarly output, 427 citations, and 12 h-index. There were also Professor Cleophas Loto and Professor Oluseyi Ajayi, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr Afolabi Adedeji of the Department of Building Technology, all occupying the 12th, 13th, and 16th positions respectively.

Professor Wiwanitkit Viroj, an Adjunct Professor at Joesph Ayo Babalola University, who was the erstwhile No.1 author, dropped to the 2nd position courtesy of his 226 scholarly output, 214 citations, and 24 h-index.

The latest development was yet another milestone for Covenant, whose remarkable upward surge in the different categories of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings had elicited rave reviews.

To God alone be all the glory!

http://m.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/News/Covenant-Researcher-Leads-Top-500-in-Nigeria#.XwS0TSUo9Px

darfay:
Lol
I'm here to Burst y'all inflated balls today. Covenant university seems to be good and all that but the volume of research seems to hamper on the quality of the research. How can one person produce 200+ scholarly work in 5yrs? Are they only into research or they teach/lecture as well?

Average citations per research work

Dr Sunday ojo had 225 publications with 619 citations in 5yrs that's an average of 619/225=2.7 Only per research work in an average of 5yrs

Dr Moses Emetere 384/211= 1.8 citations per paper[b]only[/b] in an average of 5yrs

Dr Hilary okagbue 846/142=5.9 citations per research work and this is by far your best research, take it or leave it.

Professor Roland Loto(I hear he isn't up to 40, big ups to him) 446/133=3.3 citations per paper in an average of five years

The above means hardly anybody takes covenant uni research seriously, I bet the citations include their own previously done work(s). I think this has to do with volume rather than quality of the work. If we go further to divide the computations above by 5 or 3 to get the average number of citations per year the result would be more miserable but it won't be fair since the work wasn't really stretched evenly over the time under review. And if for some reason this is the average citations for other Nigerian lecturers than we are really doomed(our educational sector I mean) and don't think that because I didn't analyze the Indian dude doesn't make him any less worse. Covenant university should focus more on quality of research. If you tell me that covenant has the most citations for any Nigerian university then I'll know something is wrong with your head because each lecturer producing an average of 100 work with an average of 1.5 citations while a UI lecturer might produce an average of 15 with an average of 6 citations (for example) should tell why you might have more citations. How much does covenant spend per research because I don't see why and how a mechanical engineering lecturer is having over 100 publications in 5 yrs with less than at the very least #50million at his disposal for the total research work except he is telling us what we already know.

But what do I know.....



God punish the mod that deleted this from comments no 5

Demayour:
Then the South should up their game.

The North is redundant because they have power at their beck and call.

When power is flowing over you, you'd worry less where education etc are concerned since you already call the shots.

PrinxArthur1:
not surprised in a country where computer scientist can't code unless he partake in extra lesson by same lecturer, when mechanical engineers can't even dismantle an engine and couple it back, where civil engineers do the job of an Architect, where president have NEPA bill as waec certificate, where a corrupt governor like ganduje is still gallivanting under the influence of immunity , where military journalist thinks everything on wheel is a tank, where secret police called DSS refutes judicial order

Dansuqi:
You lie.an average Blackman dislikes anything research, publication or writing so it is in order.

ethicallyright:
Op just wanted to tell us about covenant University.

He's paid to do that.


Paper research means nothing these days.

Covenant just employed a long time lecturer as an adjunct just to break the nonsense record that contributes nothing to our economy.

ismail64:
you are too myopic in reasoning. What has North or South have to do with the post?

Must you write jargons?

Wiseandtrue:
How can that work, in a country so divided

The North hardly betray each other

HigherEd:
SciVal is an online tool that offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 7,000 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide using bibliometrics.

According to the computation by SciVal, featuring the scholarly output of the top 500 authors in Nigeria over the period 2015 to 2020, saw Professor Sanjay emerging tops with 233 scholarly output, 414 citations, and 17 h-index.

It is also remarkable that Gods own University, Covenant, can proudly flaunt her reputation as the best research institution in Nigeria as 5 of the top 10 authors in the list are faculty from the University.

While Professor Misra of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering led the pack of top 500 authors by publication volume since 2015, another prolific author in Covenant, Dr Sunday Ojo Fayomi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was No.3 in the rankings with 225 scholarly output, 619 citations, and 17 h-index.

Nice one from them, but it is still poor in general. How can one published 233 articles only to be cited 414 times, this is very poor. Whereas, here, just a single article generates about 100 citations. This doesn't add up at all.

Dr Moses Emetere of the Department of Physics was ranked No.4 with 211 scholarly output, 384 citations, and 12 h-index. Other were Dr Hilary Okagbue of the Department of Physics on the 6th spot with 142 citations, 846 citations, and 15 h-index; and Professor Roland Loto, nestled on No.8 with 133 scholarly output, 446 citations, and 16 h-index.

Other covenant authors able to make the top 20 included the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor AAA. Atayero of the Department of electrical and information engineering, who emerged 11th with 111 scholarly output, 427 citations, and 12 h-index. There were also Professor Cleophas Loto and Professor Oluseyi Ajayi, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr Afolabi Adedeji of the Department of Building Technology, all occupying the 12th, 13th, and 16th positions respectively.

Professor Wiwanitkit Viroj, an Adjunct Professor at Joesph Ayo Babalola University, who was the erstwhile No.1 author, dropped to the 2nd position courtesy of his 226 scholarly output, 214 citations, and 24 h-index.

The latest development was yet another milestone for Covenant, whose remarkable upward surge in the different categories of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings had elicited rave reviews.

To God alone be all the glory!

http://m.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/News/Covenant-Researcher-Leads-Top-500-in-Nigeria#.XwS0TSUo9Px

benji93:
233 publications with just 414 citations. Must be publishing a lot of Crap. Can't you look at some Nigerians in that list with higher h-index? Ganiyu Oboh, Owolabi Mayowa e.t.c?

HigherEd:
Joseph Ayo Babalola University owned by CAC church..

Xisnin:
You just displayed your ignorance about higher education.
Universities don't teach coding beyond the introductory level
neither are they designed to teach you how to lose bolts and spanners.

If you want to learn to code, read books, or join a Bootcamp.
You also have the option of technical schools designed to teach manual skills.

It is a lack of proper orientation and degree bastardization that makes most people
who have no business in the university to waste years of their life.

nickxtra:
I was thinking I would see one Prof.. Philip, one American who came to lecture room to teach Japanese history, while the topic was International Economic diplomacy and his accents could not help matters

nickxtra:
I was thinking I would see one Prof.. Philip, one American who came to lecture room to teach Japanese history, while the topic was International Economic diplomacy and his accents could not help matters

mrbionic:
Exactly, that surprised me as well. That shows the quality of the research.

Wuuworld:
They should research on this man as well

hotspec:
Where are all our people from public vasities? What's happening to all the research grants? Not enough? Mismanaged?

HigherEd:
SciVal is an online tool that offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 7,000 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide using bibliometrics.

According to the computation by SciVal, featuring the scholarly output of the top 500 authors in Nigeria over the period 2015 to 2020, saw Professor Sanjay emerging tops with 233 scholarly output, 414 citations, and 17 h-index.

It is also remarkable that Gods own University, Covenant, can proudly flaunt her reputation as the best research institution in Nigeria as 5 of the top 10 authors in the list are faculty from the University.

While Professor Misra of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering led the pack of top 500 authors by publication volume since 2015, another prolific author in Covenant, Dr Sunday Ojo Fayomi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was No.3 in the rankings with 225 scholarly output, 619 citations, and 17 h-index.

Dr Moses Emetere of the Department of Physics was ranked No.4 with 211 scholarly output, 384 citations, and 12 h-index. Other were Dr Hilary Okagbue of the Department of Physics on the 6th spot with 142 citations, 846 citations, and 15 h-index; and Professor Roland Loto, nestled on No.8 with 133 scholarly output, 446 citations, and 16 h-index.

Other covenant authors able to make the top 20 included the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor AAA. Atayero of the Department of electrical and information engineering, who emerged 11th with 111 scholarly output, 427 citations, and 12 h-index. There were also Professor Cleophas Loto and Professor Oluseyi Ajayi, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr Afolabi Adedeji of the Department of Building Technology, all occupying the 12th, 13th, and 16th positions respectively.

Professor Wiwanitkit Viroj, an Adjunct Professor at Joesph Ayo Babalola University, who was the erstwhile No.1 author, dropped to the 2nd position courtesy of his 226 scholarly output, 214 citations, and 24 h-index.

The latest development was yet another milestone for Covenant, whose remarkable upward surge in the different categories of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings had elicited rave reviews.

To God alone be all the glory!

http://m.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/News/Covenant-Researcher-Leads-Top-500-in-Nigeria#.XwS0TSUo9Px

Izanghi:
From experience, many of those researchers the OP put there, majority of the authors are not the first author, they are mostly 'join Body' authors. I mean when you want to submit, please add my name and when I want to submit I'll write your name also and that's why many of them have that volume of journals.
But I most praise CU for one thing, they support their staff financially, that is as long as you put CU as the university you are writing from and as the first author, they'll pay for the research no matter how much it is and some may cost $200+. I have one of my oga who was on sabbatical in their school from unilag he produced 10 grade A journals during the sabbatical but put Covenant as the university not unilag and all the journals were fully paid for.
So whenever they say they produce journal many of the staff are from public universities but prefer to put their school's name so that covenant can pay for them.