Ahmadu Bello University in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
12
researchers on the list
4
rank in Nigeria
3,968
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abubakar, Ismaila Rimi | Environmental Sciences | 733 / 140,934 | 162 / 140,934 |
| Zakariya, Yusuf F. | Education | — | 1,153 / 115,687 |
| Alao, Joseph Omeiza | Environmental Sciences | — | 2,371 / 140,934 |
| Mohammed, Shafiu Abdullah | General & Internal Medicine | — | 1,542 / 360,081 |
| Jha, Basant Kumar | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,179 / 157,792 | 1,287 / 157,792 |
| Sadiq, Idris Zubairu | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 802 / 120,621 |
| Osinubi, Kolawole Juwonlo M. | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 1,141 / 82,760 | — |
| Ishiaku, Umaru Semo | Polymers | 1,946 / 133,253 | — |
| Obada, David Olubiyi | Materials | — | 6,446 / 330,896 |
| Abdelmalik, Abdelghaffar Amoka | Applied Physics | — | 4,957 / 323,282 |
| Atawodi, Sunday Ene Ojo | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,144 / 204,373 | — |
| Jibril, Baba El Yakubu | Energy | 5,798 / 371,959 | — |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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