Research Output Analysis for Universities of Technology in Nigeria

Research outputs of universities are often used for the determination of their ranking, prestige and impact among competing partners across the globe. This research focused on the qualitative analysis of research outputs, based on 27 identified research areas, for universities of technologies in Nigeria. The 27 subject areas of the top ten universities of Nigeria were obtained from Scopus database. Universities having less than two hundred documents were not included. Ranking and statistical methods were used for data analysis. The result showed that the research outputs from the universities of technology in Nigeria were poor especially when compared with other African countries like Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, South Africa, and Algeria and so on. Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Medicine were identified as subject areas of high research output. The universities seem to perform poorly in 3 core science areas which are chemistry, physics and mathematics. Recommendations were made based on the findings of this study