African neuroscience on the global stage: Nigeria as a model

Maina MB 1 , Mohammed YG 2 , Bukar AM 3 , Ahmad U 4 , Tijjani Salihu A 5 , Ibrahim HA 6 Show all authors , Abdurrazak M 7 , Hamidu SK 2 , Yaro AU 8 , Awadelkareem MA 9 , Nasr FE 10 , Baden T 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
  • 2 College of Medical Sciences, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria
  • 3 Centre for Visual Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
  • 4 Medical Genetics Laboratory, Genetics and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 5 Hasiya Bayero Paediatric Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
  • 6 Misr University for Science and Technology, Cairo, Egypt
  • 7 Department of Biochemistry, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
  • 8 College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
  • 9 Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Al-Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan
  • 10 Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Eur J Neurosci, 2019 06;49(12):1544-1551.
PMID: 30758873 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14372

Abstract

Of the 572 neuroscience-related studies published in Nigerian from 1996 to 2017, <5% used state-of-the-art techniques, none used transgenic models, and only one study was published in a top-tier journal.

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