Joseph Ayo Babalola University
In research, Joseph Ayo Babalola University stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,802 of 9,585 worldwide), Life Sciences (#5,442 of 6,403 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5,535 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now.
- World rank, 2022-now
- #11,074 of 22,385 · #26,556 all time
- Rank in Nigeria
- #108 of 183
- Research works
- 888 ▲ 103% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 2.6k 2.9 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 2.8% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.67× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 80% world 40%
- International
- 31% world 18%
What is Joseph Ayo Babalola University known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social SciencesDomain | #7,802 of 9,585 | 3.7% | 139 | #13053 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #5,442 of 6,403 | 2.1% | 67 | #10315 | |
| Social SciencesField | #5,535 of 5,988 | 4.6% | 68 | #8469 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #9,407 of 9,902 | 1.2% | 100 | #16363 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #10,151 of 10,670 | 3.4% | 65 | #16575 | |
| MedicineField | #8,207 of 8,541 | 0.9% | 84 | #14318 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Joseph Ayo Babalola University sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).
Which of those standings moved
The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.
- Social Sciences#13,053 #7,802
- Life Sciences#10,315 #5,442
- Social Sciences#8,469 #5,535
- Health Sciences#16,363 #9,407
- Physical Sciences#16,575 #10,151
- Medicine#14,318 #8,207
A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.
Which fields of science does Joseph Ayo Babalola University work in?
In 2022-now, 41% of research at Joseph Ayo Babalola University is in Social Sciences, 24% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (21%), Medicine (20%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Social Sciences18341.3%
- Social Sciences9220.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting347.8%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance235.1%
- Arts and Humanities163.7%
- Psychology102.2%
- Decision Sciences81.9%
- Health Sciences10724.2%
- Medicine9020.3%
- Health Professions112.5%
- Nursing51.0%
- Dentistry10.2%
- Veterinary10.2%
- Physical Sciences7817.6%
- Computer Science306.9%
- Environmental Science143.2%
- Engineering122.7%
- Mathematics112.6%
- Materials Science40.9%
- Energy30.6%
- Physics and Astronomy10.3%
- Chemistry10.2%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
- Chemical Engineering00.0%
- Life Sciences7516.9%
Field profile
Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Immunology and Microbiology2.93×13 works
- Business, Management and Accounting2.41×34 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.39×23 works
- Mathematics2.19×11 works
- Nursing2.08×4 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.03×3 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.99×42 works
- Decision Sciences1.95×8 works
- Social Sciences1.64×92 works
- Arts and Humanities1.27×16 works
- Veterinary1.12×1 works
- Medicine1.06×90 works
- Health Professions0.95×11 works
- Computer Science0.88×30 works
- Psychology0.72×10 works
- Energy0.68×3 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.66×16 works
- Environmental Science0.65×14 works
- Dentistry0.35×1 works
- Materials Science0.27×4 works
- Neuroscience0.18×1 works
- Engineering0.18×12 works
- Chemistry0.15×1 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.12×1 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×1 works
- Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works
- Immunology and Microbiology 2.9×
- Business, Management and Accounting 2.4×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2.4×
- Mathematics 2.2×
- Nursing 2.1×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2.0×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2.0×
- Decision Sciences 1.9×
- Social Sciences 1.6×
- Arts and Humanities 1.3×
- Veterinary 1.1×
- Medicine 1.1×
- Health Professions 0.9×
- Computer Science 0.9×
- Psychology 0.7×
- Energy 0.7×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.7×
- Environmental Science 0.7×
- Dentistry 0.3×
- Materials Science 0.3×
- Neuroscience 0.2×
- Engineering 0.2×
- Chemistry 0.1×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.1×
- Chemical Engineering 0.0×
Who are the top researchers at Joseph Ayo Babalola University?
Ranked on the quality score, Ayodeji Boluwatife Aiyesimoju, R. Olajide and Emmanuel Makanjuola Ogunjemilua lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Joseph Ayo Babalola University.
- 1
Ayodeji Boluwatife Aiyesimoju
Nigeria · #2,165,886 worldwide 226 citations · 29 works
- 2
R. Olajide
Nigeria · #3,590,293 worldwide 148 citations · 30 works
- 3
Emmanuel Makanjuola Ogunjemilua
Nigeria · #4,414,221 worldwide 23 citations · 16 works
- 4
Olatunde Folaranmi Adedayo
Nigeria · #4,535,789 worldwide 115 citations · 24 works
- 5
Festus M. Epetimehin
Nigeria · #4,853,671 worldwide 117 citations · 27 works
- 6
Jonathan Adegoke Adetoso
Nigeria · #4,891,309 worldwide 107 citations · 15 works
- 7
K. I. T. Eniola
Nigeria · #5,288,546 worldwide 153 citations · 63 works
- 8
O Okhiai
Nigeria · #5,571,087 worldwide 113 citations · 16 works
- 9
J.A. Folayan
Nigeria · #5,620,179 worldwide 92 citations · 17 works
- 10
Leye Jonathan Babatola
Nigeria · #6,071,092 worldwide 130 citations · 23 works
Which keywords describe research at Joseph Ayo Babalola University?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Governance, Vaccine, Healthcare, Smallholder Farmers, Immune Response, Viral Transmission, Epidemiology and Pathogenesis.
- Smallpox Vaccination
- Host Immunity
- Coronavirus
- Sociolinguistics
- Leadership
- Work Organization
- Diversity
- Adaptation
- ACE2 Receptor
- Political Transition
- Africa
- Decentralization
- Financial Performance
- Ethnicity
- Pathogenesis
- Public Health
- Immune Response
- Vaccine
- Governance
- Healthcare
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Globalization
- Pandemic
- Smallholder Farmers
- Viral Transmission
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
- Corporate Governance
- Social Movements
- Economic Growth
- urban protest
- Agroecology
- Agricultural Development
- Livestock Farming
- Risk Management
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Multilingualism
- Zoonotic Disease
- Monkeypox Virus
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology31▲ 1.74×53 topics
- Healthcare22▲ 4.3×11 topics
- Sustainability20▲ 1.85×26 topics
- Governance19▲ 13×7 topics
- Globalization18▲ 2.0×31 topics
- Vaccine18▲ 10×11 topics
- Pandemic18▲ 4.0×9 topics
- Immune Response17▲ 6.6×14 topics
- Smallholder Farmers17▲ 18×4 topics
- Public Health15▲ 2.4×19 topics
- Viral Transmission15▲ 25×3 topics
- Pathogenesis15▲ 6.5×16 topics
- COVID-1914▲ 2.4×18 topics
- Ethnicity13▲ 8.1×4 topics
- SARS-CoV-213▲ 9.7×5 topics
- Financial Performance13▲ 5.1×9 topics
- Corporate Governance13▲ 3.9×14 topics
- Decentralization12▲ 13×2 topics
- Social Movements12▲ 9.3×2 topics
- Africa12▲ 64×2 topics
- Economic Growth11▲ 3.2×14 topics
- Political Transition11▲ 51×1 topic
- urban protest11▲ 306×1 topic
- ACE2 Receptor11▲ 11×3 topics
- Agroecology11▲ 18×2 topics
- Adaptation11▲ 8.2×4 topics
- Agricultural Development10▲ 15×2 topics
- Diversity10▲ 13×3 topics
- Livestock Farming10▲ 38×1 topic
- Work Organization10▲ 58×1 topic
- Risk Management10▲ 4.7×8 topics
- Leadership10▲ 4.5×11 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation9▲ 5.6×7 topics
- Sociolinguistics9▲ 11×7 topics
- Multilingualism8▲ 12×3 topics
- Coronavirus8▲ 9.4×3 topics
- Zoonotic Disease8▲ 72×2 topics
- Host Immunity8▲ 75×2 topics
- Monkeypox Virus8▲ 110×1 topic
- Smallpox Vaccination8▲ 110×1 topic
Which research topics does Joseph Ayo Babalola University publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: African Studies and Ethnography, Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Poxvirus research and outbreaks and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 African Studies and Ethnography Sociology and Political Science 11 works
- 2 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 10 works
- 3 Poxvirus research and outbreaks Virology 8 works
- 4 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 7 works
- 5 Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research Molecular Biology 6 works
- 6 Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments Epidemiology 5 works
- 7 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 5 works
- 8 Insurance and Financial Risk Management Economics and Econometrics 5 works
- 9 Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies Linguistics and Language 5 works
- 10 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 5 works
How open and international is its research?
Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Joseph Ayo Babalola University's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 103% higher than in 2018-2021.
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Joseph Ayo Babalola University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0017% in 2024.
Fractional works of Joseph Ayo Babalola University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 5.7% in 2021.
Other research institutions in Akure
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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