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Nwaikpe:
He even needed to restrict his Google Scholar profile.
There is a reason why.

Anyone who hypes his research himself is a suspect.

The guy's Google Scholar profile is live with just 91 citations, not restricted. He has H-index of 5 as at 4th December, 2025. Only 91 citations and H-index of just 5 shows he is a starter. Anyway, this is not bad for someone who just obtained a PhD. If his work is truly novel and worth celebrating, it should receive minimum citation count of at least the impact factor of the journal within one year. Since the journal impact factor is currently 4.5, his work is expected to receive minimum of 5 citations in 12 calendar months, starting from November 2025.

FreeStuffsNG:
Vanity publishing that landed a lot of them in serious trouble like the academic fraud Phillip Emegwali.

Nothing up there's scientific and has mediocrity all over it.

His PR cringes and should actually face a disciplinary board. He should go into showbiz and join Potable in making money from marketing unseriousness.

Haba! Shame on the school that produced him with this kind of short cut mentality.

I found this publication on the EU consortium's website crediting Anagwu and his colleagues with a new scientific discovery: https://pleiades-project.eu/new-publication-on-high-temperature-vitrimers/

Nwaikpe:
Nigerians go just wake up one day, dey hype their own research.
Very unethical

The research has not won any prize.
Has not received any external commendation,
Has not been published in a high-impact journal,
Has only gathered about 22 citations since 2022,

Yet you come out hyping it as a "breakthrough."

I am from Bauchi State. I tried to fact-check this scientist. I found out that the EU's fonder of the research, PLEIADES consortium, apart from celebrating the output on LinkedIn, actually published the news on their official website. I also noticed that Anagwu is the first author in that paper. It was not mentioned anywhere that Anagwu is the only researcher who made the finding. As a matter of fact, there are three of them. But Nigerian media chose to celebrate Anagwu alone. That is not fair to the other two guys. I also discover that Anagwu just concluded his PhD in 2024. In 2025 alone, he has gathered 44 citations based on his Google Scholar profile. This is commendable for an early researcher. What interests me most is that Anagwu has many datasets in academic repositories. This is rare among Nigerians. It is an indication of high quality research. A lot of Nigerian professors with many citations don't have a single dataset in any repository. I am not a scientist, but I researched the journal polymer where Anagwu published the work. I discovered that the journal has impact factor of 4.5. This is moderate. But I also discovered that the journal is well-regarded in that field, even more than some journals with higher impact factors. As I wrote before, I am not a scientist. So, I don't really know whether his finding is worth celebrating or not.