The University of Nigeria has just been ranked number 1 in Nigeria, and No 17 in Africa based on citations from publications, which is a direct measurement of quality of research output for the year.
UNN is the only Nigerian university in the top 20 ranking in Africa.
It’s world ranking is 1108 with 108,209 citations.
No 2 in Nigeria is University of Ibadan with 86,756 citations.
No 3 is University of Ilorin with 74,245 citations.
No 4 is Covenant University with 55,844 citations.
No 5 is University of Lagos with 41,121 citations.
University of Ibadan word rank is 1246,
University of Ilorin 1328,
University of Covenant 1511,
University of Lagos 1726.
No 1 in the world is Harvard university with 8,704,969 citations.
No 1 in Africa is University of Cape town with 996, 898 citations.
This remarkable achievement is all due to the push for excellence in publishing in visible journals that are cited internationally by staff of the University.
