SciVal, an academic and research review platform, has rated the Department of Industrial Chemistry of University of llorin (UNILORIN) the academic unit with the highest number of research publications (90) in institution in the last five years (2016-2019).
This was contained in a report published in April 2020 by SciVal.
Other Departments with considerable number of publications, were Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering with 55 and 46 publications.
The report also noted that UNILORIN produced 14 researchers who published at least 20 researches in highly -rated journals across the world despite numerous challenges facing research and development in Nigeria.
The report showed three researchers from the Department produced 90 out of 500 research profiles released in the period under review.
The three scholars, whose contributions gave the Industrial Chemistry Department an edge over others were Professor Folahan Amoo Adekola, the Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences; Professor Alafara Abdullahi Baba,Head of the Department, and Prof Gabriel Ademola Olatunji, the immediate past Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research, Technology and Innovation), of the institution..
While Adekola had 38 of the total contributions from the Department, Alafara and Platinum contributed 26 stimulating publications each.
Individually, Professor Lawrence Aderemi Platinum of the Department of Physiology, College of Health Sciences, has the highest research publications (42) in Scopus based journals. He is trailed by Adekola (38). Dr. Frank Nasir of the Department of Telecommunication has 32 publications, while Professor Adeniyi Adewale of the Department of Chemical Engineering had 31 publications.
Other researchers who published at least 20 papers in highly -rated journals were: Kolawole Wahab (Medicine,27), K. D. Adeyemi (Animal Productions, 27), Adekunle Adeleke (Mechanical Engineering 22), Samson Oyeyinka (Food Science, 21). Adedibu Tella (Chemistry, 20), and Olufemi Desalu (Medical Microbiology, 20).
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