Nigeria

Nigeria — recorded first-name fields of affiliated academic authors, 2001–2021 pooled · CC BY 4.0

Who is counted

Nigeria-affiliated researchers in Scopus journal articles published in 2001–2021, downloaded January–February 2022. The source counts unique Scopus author IDs with a recorded first-name field and assigns each author to the first country affiliation listed on their first journal article in the dataset. The complete source file contains 11285 distinct field strings and 47979 author IDs. This is an academic-author sample, not citizenship, ancestry, residence, national population or births. Author IDs are not independently verified unique people.

Rounding

Local author-ID counts are exact integers as published. The separate rounded Proportion in country column means the country's fraction of worldwide author IDs sharing that field string; it is not national name prevalence and is not imported as a population share or denominator.

Unpublished counts

Source includes fields borne by at least one counted author ID. NameStoria retains competition ranks ≤100, including boundary ties (102 rows); 11183 other source strings remain in the preserved original file. There is no inferred birth-register suppression threshold.

Ranking

Descending local Authors in country count across the complete first-name file; standard competition ranking (1, 2, 2, 4), with every name whose rank is at most 100 retained. Original file order follows name-country association, not local frequency; it is not treated as rank. No totals from last-name files or first-author-only research analyses are merged.

Spelling policy

Preserve the source Latin-script field strings and spelling variants separately; no native-script reconstruction, first/last-name repair, compound expansion, nationality, language, religion or sex inference. Dictionary integration is disabled: these fields cannot seed names or automatically attach to dictionary identities.