RESEARCH
Publications & Research Output
A record of what our researchers have published, where it appeared, and how the University makes that work freely available.
Measuring what matters
FUSTKABO maintains an institutional publication register administered jointly by the University Library and the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Development. Every peer-reviewed output authored by a member of staff must be deposited in the register within thirty days of acceptance, together with the accepted manuscript for open-access deposit where the publisher permits.
The register underpins the University's annual research report, promotion assessment, NUC returns and TETFund performance reporting. It also drives the FUSTKABO Institutional Repository, a public archive of theses, working papers, datasets and accepted manuscripts.
We count outputs conservatively. Only items in journals indexed by Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, AJOL or the African Index Medicus, or in peer-reviewed conference proceedings with published review processes, are included in the headline figures below. Publications in venues on the University's excluded list — those without genuine peer review — are not counted, are not funded, and do not support promotion.
612
Indexed Publications
Cumulative, 2023 to July 2026
214
Published in 2025
Up 34% year on year
4,180
Total Citations
Google Scholar, July 2026
31
Institutional h-index
Aggregated staff profiles
68%
Open Access Share
Gold, green or diamond route
41%
Internationally Co-Authored
At least one non-Nigerian affiliation
27
Books & Book Chapters
Peer-reviewed academic presses
5
Patents Filed
2 granted, 3 under examination
Selected Recent Publications
| Author(s) | Title | Journal / Venue | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kabo, A. S., Tsanyawa, M. Y. & Gezawa, I. S. | Seasonal dust soiling losses on fixed-tilt photovoltaic arrays in the Nigerian Sudan savannah | Renewable Energy | 2026 |
| Danbatta, H. U., Aliyu, F. M. & Sheffield, R. J. | A 42-million-token annotated corpus for Hausa: construction, annotation guidelines and baselines | Language Resources and Evaluation | 2026 |
| Gwarzo, Z. I., Dawakin Tofa, A. M. & Yakasai, B. A. | Referral delay and maternal near-miss in rural Kano State: a facility-based case-control study | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | 2026 |
| Bichi, S. G., Gwarzo, Y. A. & Kunya, R. I. | Yield stability of extra-early cowpea lines under terminal drought in the Sudan savannah | Field Crops Research | 2026 |
| Karaye, N. A., Kunya, R. I. & Makarfi, U. S. | Fluoride occurrence and health risk in shallow groundwater of the Hadejia-Jama'are alluvial aquifer | Journal of African Earth Sciences | 2025 |
| Rano, F. L., Sule, H. A. & Bagwai, S. A. | Antiplasmodial activity and cytotoxicity of Guiera senegalensis leaf fractions against chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 2025 |
| Bagwai, S. A., Gwarzo, Z. I. & Ringim, A. U. | Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in two Kano tertiary hospitals: molecular characterisation and risk factors | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | 2025 |
| Tsanyawa, M. Y. & Dambatta, M. S. | Groundnut shell ash as a supplementary cementitious material in sandcrete block production | Construction and Building Materials | 2025 |
| Makoda, H. S. & Rurum, A. G. | Digital financial services adoption and productivity among micro-enterprises in the Kano textile cluster | Journal of African Business | 2025 |
| Aliyu, F. M., Danbatta, H. U. & Musa, K. T. | Low-resource automatic speech recognition for Kano dialect Hausa using self-supervised pretraining | Proceedings of INTERSPEECH | 2025 |
| Gezawa, I. S., Kabo, A. S. & Sale, A. H. | Techno-economic assessment of solar-powered evaporative cold storage for smallholder horticulture in northern Nigeria | Energy for Sustainable Development | 2025 |
| Dawakin Tofa, A. M., Yusuf, H. B. & Gwarzo, Z. I. | Task-sharing of emergency obstetric interventions with midwives in hard-to-reach wards: a mixed-methods implementation study | Global Health: Science and Practice | 2025 |
| Kunya, R. I., Karaye, N. A. & Shanono, I. H. | Adsorptive removal of chromium (VI) from tannery effluent using acid-activated Kano kaolin | Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering | 2025 |
| Ringim, A. U., Bagwai, S. A. & Lawan, M. D. | Haemoglobin genotype distribution and knowledge of sickle cell disease among prospective couples in Kano metropolis | African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | 2025 |
| Dambatta, M. S., Sani, A. K. & Tsanyawa, M. Y. | Passive cooling performance of compressed earth block walling in hot-dry Kano: a monitored field study | Building and Environment | 2025 |
| Sule, H. A., Rano, F. L. & Ibrahim, N. G. | Standardisation and heavy metal profiling of commercially traded Hausa herbal preparations in Kano markets | Journal of Herbal Medicine | 2024 |
| Gwarzo, Y. A., Bichi, S. G. & Adamu, S. M. | Striga hermonthica incidence and integrated management options in sorghum fields of Kabo Local Government Area | Crop Protection | 2024 |
| Musa, K. T., Danbatta, H. U. & Abubakar, Z. S. | Named entity recognition for Hausa news text: dataset and transformer baselines | Proceedings of the AfricaNLP Workshop | 2024 |
| Shanono, I. H., Karaye, N. A. & Ahmad, M. B. | Reliability and governance of community-managed solar boreholes in three Kano LGAs | Water Policy | 2024 |
| Yakasai, B. A., Gwarzo, Z. I. & Sadiq, U. A. | Insecticide susceptibility status of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato in irrigated and rain-fed sites of North West Nigeria | Parasites & Vectors | 2024 |
Research Output by Faculty (2023-2026)
| Faculty | Indexed Papers | Books / Chapters | Conference Papers | Open Access % | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computing | 94 | 3 | 41 | 84% | 712 |
| Science | 108 | 5 | 22 | 61% | 806 |
| Engineering | 87 | 4 | 33 | 66% | 689 |
| Environmental Sciences | 61 | 3 | 18 | 58% | 402 |
| Basic Medical Sciences | 52 | 2 | 9 | 77% | 511 |
| Clinical Sciences | 66 | 2 | 11 | 81% | 648 |
| Allied Health Sciences | 31 | 1 | 7 | 72% | 183 |
| Nursing Sciences | 24 | 2 | 6 | 69% | 121 |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 48 | 2 | 12 | 63% | 394 |
| Management Sciences | 41 | 3 | 14 | 52% | 214 |
| Centre for General Studies | 10 | 0 | 4 | 49% | 38 |
The FUSTKABO Institutional Repository
The Institutional Repository is the University's permanent, publicly searchable archive of research output. It holds accepted manuscripts, doctoral and masters theses, technical reports, datasets, conference presentations and inaugural lectures.
Deposits carry persistent identifiers, are indexed by Google Scholar, OpenAIRE and CORE, and are preserved under the University's digital preservation policy. Theses are deposited automatically at the point of degree award, subject to a maximum twelve-month embargo where a patent application or commercial agreement is pending.
- Over 1,900 items deposited and openly available
- Persistent handle identifiers on every record
- Automatic thesis deposit at degree award
- Harvested by Google Scholar, CORE and OpenAIRE
- Dataset deposit supported, with DOI minting on request
- ORCID linkage for every research-active member of staff
Open Access & Research Integrity Policy in Brief
Approved by Senate and reviewed every three years. The full policy document is available from the University Library and the DRID office.
- Every peer-reviewed output must be deposited in the institutional register within thirty days of acceptance.
- The accepted manuscript must be deposited in the Institutional Repository, released openly at publication or at the end of any publisher embargo, whichever is later.
- Article processing charges for approved open-access venues are met by the Internal Research Fund up to ₦1.2 million per member of staff per year.
- Publications in venues without genuine peer review are excluded from all University metrics, receive no financial support and do not count toward promotion.
- All researchers must hold and maintain an ORCID identifier and list FUSTKABO as their affiliation in the form approved by Senate.
- Data underpinning published findings must be deposited in the repository or a recognised discipline archive, with access restrictions only where ethics, consent or law require them.
- Authorship follows the ICMJE criteria: substantial contribution, drafting or critical revision, final approval and accountability. Gift and ghost authorship are treated as research misconduct.
- All manuscripts are screened for similarity before submission using the University's licensed plagiarism detection service.
- Allegations of research misconduct are investigated under the Senate-approved Research Integrity Procedure by a panel independent of the department concerned.
- Funder-specific open access mandates take precedence where they are more stringent than University policy.
A warning about predatory publishing
Staff and postgraduate students are strongly cautioned against submitting to journals that solicit manuscripts by unsolicited email, promise publication within days, charge fees without disclosing them upfront, or cannot demonstrate a genuine editorial board and peer review process. Such publications damage individual reputations and the standing of the University, and they will not be recognised for promotion, funded from any University source, or counted in institutional returns. If you are unsure about a venue, ask the University Library before you submit, not after.
Publications: Questions and Answers
How do I deposit a publication in the institutional register?
What counts as an indexed publication for promotion?
Can I claim publications produced before joining FUSTKABO?
How should I write my affiliation?
Can the University pay my article processing charge?
My thesis contains material I intend to patent. Must it be published immediately?
Who can help me improve a manuscript before submission?
Explore the full research record
Browse the Institutional Repository for open-access manuscripts, theses and datasets, or contact the Library and Research Office for a bespoke output report.