Obafemi Awolowo UniversityUniversity

Nigeria

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Foundation: 1962

Mission: To nurture a teaching and learning community; advance frontiers of knowledge; engender a sense of selfless public service; and add value to African culture.

Vision: A top rated university in Africa.

History: oauife.edu.ng

74th
Overall percentile
69th
Research percentile
85th
Innovation percentile
40th
Societal percentile

Evolution of the institution

The following data gives a quick reading on the scientific performance in the last years. The research ranking refers to the volume, impact and quality of the institution's research output. The innovation ranking is calculated on the number of patent applications of the institution and the citations that its research output receives from patents. Finally, the societal ranking is based on the number of pages of the institution's website and the number of backlinks and mentions from social networks.

Compared to its context

The result of the evaluation of the institution can be compared to obtain a view of the country, the region to which it belongs and the institutions of the world, placing it in their respective positions.

Compared to All sectors (percentiles)
Compared to Universities sector (percentiles)

Ranks by Subject areas/categories

We have divided the scientific output of the institution into 19 large areas of knowledge and the following table shows only the ranks in different territorial domains achieved by the institution in each of the areas. For an institution to have a presence in an area, it is necessary that it exceed in the last year a minimum output threshold equivalent to twice the percentage that this area represents in the world. If you need scientific indicators on these areas visit Scopus and/or SciVal.

 
AreaWorldAfricaNigeria
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +4144th205th25th
Arts and Humanities 2168th43rd11th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4993rd136th11th
Business, Management and Accounting 1544th31st5th
Chemistry 4214th140th15th
Computer Science 3336th96th5th
Dentistry 534th6th2nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3079th108th17th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1119th31st8th
Energy 2917th104th6th
Engineering +3515th100th10th
Environmental Science 4241st161st21st
Mathematics 3150th99th12th
Medicine +4394th113th8th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 3558th119th10th
Physics and Astronomy 3692nd103rd13th
Psychology 2409th37th5th
Social Sciences +2528th55th9th

Publishing profile

These are the journals used by the institution's researchers to publish their work in the last year. The size of each circle represents the value of the SJR of the publication, and its spatial position represents its subject matter.

This visualizatión allows you to identify the knowledge areas where the institution has published, recognize the prestige of the scientific journals in which the institution knowledge has been published, and identify predominant scientific communities.

Where is the institution located?

  • Government
  • Health
  • Universities
  • Companies
  • Non-Profit
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