Research Collaboration Landscape of the University of Ibadan Biomedical Authors between 2006 and 2015

Abstract

This analysis of co-authorship of biomedical researchers at the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria between 2006 and 2015 is based on bibliographic data from the PubMed®. It describes the types and the countries of collaboration, comparison of the visibility of the collaboration types and funding status. The results show that internal collaboration was high while international collaboration was low, and about 30% of the published papers were funded. The papers received an average of 2.58 citations per year while collaborative coefficient was 0.65. Furthermore, international collaboration and funded papers received more citations. While about two-thirds of the international collaborations were funded, just about 20% of the internal collaborations were funded. Comparison of the visibility of international with internal collaboration shows that international collaborations have impacted UI biomedical research more significantly than internal collaboration.

Keywords: Co-authorship analysis; Research collaboration; University of Ibadan; Bibliometrics; Biomedical research