Three lecturers of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State were ranked among top world scientists.
Metrics obtained from Scopus, the largest database of peer-reviewed scholarly documents, identified Professors Abass Abiola Olajire, Olugbenga Solomon Bello and Agbaje Lateef
A document recently released by Elsevier B. V (Netherlands) and a team of researchers led by Prof. John P.A. loannidis from Stanford University, United States displayed a comprehensive list of top two per cent scholars across all fields world-wide.
A further analysis of the data showed that Olajire ranks 128th of 66,925 scholars in Environmental Sciences, Bello 582nd of 55,697 scholars in Chemical Engineering while Lateef ranked 757th of 50,343 scholars in Biotechnology worldwide.
“It is gratifying to note that while Prof. Olajire started his career as a foundation academic staff of LAUTECH in 1990, both Bello and Lateef are alumni of the university”, the institution’s spokesman, Olalekan Fadeyi said.
Olajire is a Professor of Industrial/Environmental Chemistry, Bello specialises in Physical Chemistry while Lateef is a Professor of Microbiology and also Head of LAUTECH’s Nanotechnology Research Group (NANO+)
