Summative Evaluation and Recommendations

Abstract

This concluding chapter compares the research output and scientific impact of the scholarship of the health sciences professors in the Nigerian universities, Nigerian professors employed in foreign universities, the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) fellows, and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) fellows. The sample sizes, means, and standard deviations of the bibliometric performance scores of the Nigerian university professors (presented in Chap. 4 ), NAS fellows (conveyed in Chap. 5 ), professors employed in foreign universities (see Chap. 6 ), and the AAS fellows reported previously by Balogun et al. (2021) were subjected to the analysis of variance statistical evaluation. The result revealed a statistically significant F-ratio (p < 0.0001) in publication count (F = 85.7), citation (F = 52.5), co-authorship (F = 35.8), and H-index (F = 70.6) scores. The Tukey HSD post-hoc test revealed that the bibliometric performance scores of the Nigerian professors employed in foreign universities are more significant than those in Nigerian universities and the NAS fellows. A priori, this chapter drew comparisons between the bibliometric performance of the Nigerian health sciences academics and the Nobel Prize winners in healthcare from 2018 to 2021. The research output and scholarship impact of one Nigerian academic in diaspora (Olufunmilayo Olapade) are higher than two Nobel Prize winners in healthcare between 2018 and 2021 (Ardem Patapoutian and David Julius). This study confirms the widely held speculation that Nigeria’s academic luminaries are in the diaspora. Finally, the chapter presents the original contribution to desirable changes in evaluating the scholarship performance of Nigerian academics and strategies toward improving current research systems in the country.