On March 25, 2017, I embarked on a journey of discovery to ascertain the research harvest for all first-generation universities in Nigeria. These are University of Ibadan (UI); Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU);
A total of 18408, 8640, 6527, 7907, and 6484 peer-reviewed documents were affiliated to UI, OAU, Unilag; UNN, and ABU respectively. These documents cut across all disciplines as medicine; agricultural and biological sciences; biochemistry, genetics and molecular
NEJM receives over 5000 article submissions in a year and it adopts a rigorous peer review process with extensive revisions by at least five
Results from my search show that 2 documents published in NEJM had affiliations to UI— with the first published in 1984 and the other in 2014. There were also 90 documents
While these figures could reveal universities in Nigeria were better off in the past in terms of high-impact peer-reviewed research, it could as well mean that such universities are equally dismal in the
As modern society evolves, universities are expected to play an increasingly important role in society to enhance economic prosperity