BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF AUTHORSHIP PATTERNS OF RESEARCH OUTPUT IN AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY COMPLEX OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY

📄 Project Abstract

The study is a bibliometric analysis of authorship patterns of research output in Agriculture and Veterinary Complex of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria from 2002 - 2012. From pools of models on research productivity, thestudy adoptedfrom two models those factors that facilitate quantitative analysis that comprise of number of publications, organizational structure, rules governing promotions, employees and colleagues relationship to research output in order to provide answers to four research questions raised and to test the conformity of Lotka's Law of research productivity. The population constituted faculty members from the six units that administratively made up the Agriculture and Veterinary complex of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, these units comprise of Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Division of Agricultural Colleges (DAC), National Animal Production and Research Institute (NAPRI), Faculty of Agriculture (FOA), National Agricultural Extension and Research L...