Universities across the world are competing for a shrinking pool of research funding. This bleak prospect has turned their attention to finding new ways to compete, for example, using their unique strengths and resources to make decisions about how to organize themselves, whom to recruit, and in what to invest. Such positioning, however, requires a rich understanding of the institution, based on actual data.
SciVal, by Elsevier Research Intelligence, is designed to meet this need. It delivers research performance metrics, based on the Scopus database, for 4,600 research universities and other institutions in more than 200 countries. It incorporates and builds on some of Elsevier’s previous products, such as Spotlight and Strata, to deliver a module-based reporting tool that allows institutions to understand the position and productivity of various groups of researchers—user-defined or as organized in Scopus.
Prof. John Mburu and Prof. Ockello Ogutu Chris displaying performance award
The Department of Agricultural Economics has once again made the entire University of Nairobi community proud.This is because ten out of the top five hundred scholars and researchers abstracted under university of Nairobi by the SciVal perfomance ranking tool come from the Department of Agricultural Economics.
The Departmental chairman Prof John Mburu,has led by example and has emerged top best in the department and position twenty one in the entire University of Nairobi performers.Others performers produced by the department are Otieno Caleb Joseph,Dr.Otieno Jakinda David,Prof.Okello Julius Juma,Prof Oluoch Kosura Willis,Dr.Nzuma Jonathan Makau,Dr.Irungu Patrick,Prof Ockello Ogutu Chris,Prof Rose Nyikal who is the current principal of the College of Agriculture and veterinary sciences and Kanyenji George Magambo in that order.
Our congratulations goes to all of them for putting the department in the research map.
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