Nigeria

214.1k papers and 2.2M indexed citations i.

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In recent decades scholars affiliated with institutions in Nigeria have published 214.1k papers, which have received a total of 2.2M indexed citations. Scholars in Nigeria publish mostly in Plant Science (22.8k papers), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (12.4k papers) and Epidemiology (12.1k papers) and are cited by scholars working on Plant Science (268.3k citations), Molecular Biology (163.7k citations) and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (149.5k citations). Scholars in Nigeria collaborate with scholars from United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Scholars in Nigeria have published in prestigous journals including Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers citing works of authors working in Nigeria

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by authors working at institutions in Nigeria. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by authors working at institutions in Nigeria. The network helps show where authors in Nigeria may publish in the future.

Countries collaborating with authors based in Nigeria

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by institutions in Nigeria. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers from institutions in Nigeria with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Nigeria more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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