University of Ilorin Scholar

Research dashboard

Research at the University of Ilorin

What the university publishes, who publishes it, how widely the work is read, and how it compares.

23,510Publications
404,914Citations
173Institutional h-index
9,788i10-index
1,892Researchers indexed

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Publications and citations by faculty

Share of output by academic staff in each faculty, as listed in the University Calendar. Citations are each researcher’s Unilorin share.

Publications

Engineering & Technology 13%
Physical Sciences 13%
Agriculture 10%
Life Sciences 10%
Clinical Sciences 9%
Education 8%
Communication & Information Sciences 8%
Other faculties 28%

Citations

Engineering & Technology 20%
Clinical Sciences 14%
Physical Sciences 14%
Life Sciences 12%
Communication & Information Sciences 9%
Agriculture 8%
Veterinary Medicine 6%
Other faculties 17%

Performance over time

Publications carrying a Unilorin affiliation each year, and the citations Unilorin’s work received in that year.

2012’122013’132014’142015’152016’162017’172018’182019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25
Publications, peak 2,641 Citations received, peak 31,921
Show the figures year by year
YearPublicationsCitations received
20252,64131,921
20242,28131,303
20232,04626,547
20221,96722,819
20211,88217,841
20201,77111,950
20191,2237,446
20181,1085,818
20179974,440
20167583,899
20155993,444
20146243,172
20135052,633
20124341,990

Three-year performance

2025
2,641 papers
31,921 citations
2024
2,281 papers
31,303 citations
2023
2,046 papers
26,547 citations

In 2025, publications rose 16% and citations received rose 2% on the year before.

Most Unilorin publications
308
Adewale George Adeniyi
Chemical Engineering
Highest citations
10,173
Adewale George Adeniyi
Chemical Engineering
Highest h-index
53
Adewale George Adeniyi
Chemical Engineering
Highest i10-index
201
Adewale George Adeniyi
Chemical Engineering

How Unilorin compares

Unilorin against eight Nigerian and two Ghanaian universities, on the same index and the same day. The small number beside each figure is the position out of 10. Recent rate is the average number of citations received last year by papers from the two years before.

UniversityPublications Citationsh-indexCites per paper Recent rateOpen accessGrowth 2020–25
University of IbadanIbadanNG 54,55111,508,6011 330127.72 2.95163%9 +29%8
University of GhanaUGGH 41,15721,178,0432 268228.61 2.41666%8 +20%9
University of NigeriaUNNNG 40,3073778,1053 199319.37 2.05769%5 +49%4
University of LagosUNILAGNG 29,9924526,0266 192617.58 1.95867%7 +51%3
Obafemi Awolowo UniversityOAUNG 29,0755608,3944 194520.94 1.661060%10 +38%7
Ahmadu Bello UniversityABUNG 26,6656540,8905 197420.35 2.72270%3 +43%6
University of IlorinUnilorinNG 23,5107404,9147 173717.29 2.44569%4 +49%5
University of BeninUNIBENNG 19,9418297,23910 1581014.910 1.87975%2 +53%2
University of Cape CoastUCCGH 17,8459355,1819 161919.96 2.64477%1 +56%1
Covenant UniversityCovenantNG 13,66710375,0018 165827.43 2.70367%6 -34%10
Size
7th of 10
On total publications and citations, which mostly reflects a university’s age and size.
Growth since 2020
+49%
5th of 10. Annual output grew from 1,771 to 2,641 papers.
Recent citation rate
2.44
5th of 10, ahead of UNILAG, OAU, UNN, UNIBEN and UG. Unilorin’s recent papers are cited more than its size suggests.
Citations per paper, whole record
17.2
9th of 10. The weakest measure, and the one most worth moving: older work drew few citations.

Faculty breakdown

Academic staff from the University Calendar only. Colours follow the Calendar. The small number beside each figure is the faculty’s position. Tap a faculty for its departments and researchers.

FacultyStaff in index PublicationsCitationsTop h-index Staff on recordCoverage
Engineering & Technology 11032,8301 39,7161531 12489%9
Physical Sciences 11922,7292 26,8393354 13489%8
Agriculture 10062,2403 15,50662310 11587%10
Life Sciences 7972,2044 24,1714325 8791%3
Clinical Sciences 10352,0155 27,4842316 11490%6
Education 16411,7616 5,88610258 18191%5
Communication & Information Sciences 7491,6077 18,7505372 7895%2
Veterinary Medicine 60101,3648 11,1147373 7382%12
Basic Medical Sciences 38131,1329 8,4798249 3997%1
Social Sciences 79884310 6,8639277 9781%13
Management Sciences 581154511 2,842121115 6491%4
Arts 106453912 2,022141214 14772%16
Basic Clinical Sciences 271652513 4,755112211 3090%7
Pharmaceutical Sciences 331543814 2,187131313 4279%15
Law 501233415 47916716 6281%14
Environmental Sciences 331425516 1,148151912 3985%11

Where Unilorin is invisible

Share of each faculty’s academic staff, as listed in the University Calendar, with at least one publication in the international research index. Low coverage does not mean low activity. It means the work is not reaching the databases that funders, collaborators and ranking bodies search.

72%
79%
Law
81%
81%
82%
85%
87%
89%
89%
90%
90%
91%
91%
91%
95%
97%

This is the most actionable thing on the site.

The University Calendar lists 1,426 academic staff. 1,233 of them, about 86%, have at least one publication in the index under a University of Ilorin affiliation, but only 1,069 (75%) have three or more. The gap is largest in Arts, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Law and Social Sciences. A common cause, especially in the humanities and law, is work published in Nigerian journals that assign no DOI and are therefore invisible to every index and ranking body.

A second cause is name splitting. 1,066 researchers on this site were held in the index under two or more separate records, under different spellings, orders or initials of their name, each showing only part of their work; those records are combined here. An ORCID attached to every publication is what prevents that.

Three things narrow the gap, and each is something the university can act on. Staff can register an ORCID and attach their publications to it. Departments can favour journals that assign a DOI. And authors can write their affiliation consistently as University of Ilorin, since variant spellings match nothing at all. Each is measurable, and this page can track whether it improves.

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Leading researchers

Ranked among the 924 members of academic staff in the University Calendar whose published work is predominantly Unilorin-affiliated. Everyone else is in the full list.

    See all 1892 researchers →

    Research strengths

    The specific areas Unilorin publishes in most. Tap one to see who works on it.

    Signals that move rankings

    The measures ranking bodies score, reported so the position can be tracked rather than guessed at.

    Open access
    69%
    14,975 of 21,564 papers are freely readable, 4th of 10 in the comparison above.
    Countries collaborated with
    186
    Largest partner is United States, on 1,980 papers.
    Staff with an ORCID
    63%
    An ORCID keeps a name attached to the right papers. The rest are easily mislinked or split in two.
    Output growth, five years
    +49%
    Change in annual publications between 2020 and 2025.

    Where the collaboration comes from

    Countries whose institutions appear alongside Unilorin on co-authored papers.

    United States
    1,980
    South Africa
    1,354
    United Kingdom
    1,276
    India
    747
    Malaysia
    698
    China
    421
    Canada
    391
    Saudi Arabia
    366
    Germany
    302
    Australia
    301
    Ghana
    290
    South Korea
    268

    Open access

    How much of the university’s work a reader anywhere can reach without paying.

    Freely readable — 14,975 papers, 69% Paywalled — 6,589 papers, 31%

    Most-cited papers

    The university’s highest-impact publications on record. Several are large multi-author studies with one or more Unilorin co-authors.

    Notes on method

    Source
    OpenAlex, an open index of published research, retrieved 26 September 2026. Figures cover every publication on which an author gave a University of Ilorin affiliation. The university record counts 23,510 works, of which 21,564 can be retrieved individually; those form the base for the open access share and for citations received each year.
    Who is staff
    The academic staff list, with faculty, department and rank, is taken from the University of Ilorin Calendar 2024–2028, which lists 1,426 academic staff across 16 faculties and 114 departments. Every faculty and department figure on this site counts Calendar staff only. Nobody is placed in a faculty by guesswork.
    Matching
    The index holds 13,639 name records carrying a Unilorin affiliation. Each staff member was matched to every record that could be them: names in any order, initials against full names (“A. G. Salaudeen” and “Ganiyu Adekunle Salaudeen”), run-together names and small misspellings. A match also has to fit: the record’s subjects must suit the department, a different ORCID rules a record out, and two different first names under the same initials are kept apart unless they share co-authors. Records that fail these checks are set aside for a person to review rather than guessed. 1,233 staff were matched, drawing together 3,214 records.
    Other researchers
    Researchers not on the staff list appear in the directory, marked as such, when they have at least five Unilorin-affiliated publications and most of their work is Unilorin work (or at least a quarter of it, where the index lists Unilorin as their current institution). They include students, former staff, teaching-hospital clinicians and collaborators. Their work counts toward the university’s output, but they are not placed in any faculty. There are 659.
    Combined records
    Publication and citation counts for a combined researcher are the sum of their records; the h-index and i10-index are the highest of them, not recalculated. 1,066 researchers are combined in this way, and each affected profile lists the names involved.
    Citations
    Citation counts on individual pages are career totals and are labelled as such. Faculty and department figures scale each researcher’s citations to their Unilorin-affiliated share of output. Where a career total is dominated by papers without a Unilorin affiliation, typically large multi-author studies, the researcher’s figure is limited to the citations of the Unilorin papers on record and they are left out of citation rankings; their page says so. Citations received in a year count every citation made that year to any Unilorin paper.
    Comparison
    Recent citation rate is OpenAlex’s two-year mean citedness: the average number of citations received in the last year by papers published in the two years before it. Growth compares annual publications in 2020 and 2025. All ten universities were measured on the same day from the same index.
    Years
    Charts run from 2012 to the last complete year. The year in progress is excluded.
    Status
    A prototype prepared for the Ranking Steering Committee.