Bibliometric Study of Theses and Dissertations of Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Nigeria

Abstract

The study focuses on the mapping of postgraduate theses and dissertations of the faculty of environmental sciences of Modibbo Adama  University, Yola during the period of 20years of running its postgraduate programme (2001- 2021). The theses and dissertations were  obtained from the postgraduate faculty of the university. Every graduated postgraduate degree has a copy of its theses/dissertation deposited and they were used to retrieve bibliographic data for the study. The study covers 182theses and dissertation produced in the  faculty within the period of the study. The study examined and analyzed the research output such as types of postgraduate research  output produced by the faculty, the relative growth rate of the research output, annual growth rate of the research output, ranking the highest supervising academic by departments in the faculty, and determining the top three ranked academics in the faculty in terms of  postgraduate supervision and graduation.