Computer Science Lecturer Receives Outstanding Reviewer Award

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Dr Aderemi Oluyinka Adewumi of the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (SMSCS) has been acknowledged as an Outstanding Reviewer in the annual Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.  

Adewumi is being recognised for his contributions last year to the Institute for Scientific Information Institution-ranked Kybernetes journal - a publication of the Emerald Publishing Group. 

He is among a select few from Africa to have received the award over the years. 

The award for Outstanding Reviewer is given to peer reviewers in recognition of their dedication to ensuring that the journal’s papers contribute to its reputation as a scholarly, respectable publication and for providing a valuable service to the authors and researchers who submit work to the journal. The advice and effort from these reviewers is vital to the development of researchers.

Kybernetes, the official journal of the UNESCO-recognised World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) and the Cybernetics Society, provides an important medium for the exchange of knowledge and information in cybernetics and systems thinking and seeks to base cybernetics on solid scientific findings. The journal has an interdisciplinary focus, which allows for a view of how cybernetics and systems work in a broad way. 

Aside from being a constant reviewer for many local and International Institute for Scientific Information journals and conferences proceedings, Adewumi has been reviewing papers for the journal which fall into his area of expertise since February 2013.  

Speaking of his work for Kybernetes and its contribution to his own work, Adewumi said: ‘Acting as a peer reviewer helps to improve my trajectory of knowledge and ideas. It sometimes provides an idea of current trends and develops one’s thinking in a specific research area, which serves to directly or indirectly inform personal contribution in that area.’ 

Adewumi hopes to continue as a reviewer for the journal as well as for other journals as long as the articles for review fall within his area of interest and contribute to the body of knowledge of current research in artificial intelligence and its various applications. 

‘Receiving this award is a great inspiration and motivation to do more.  It is also an inspiration to look more closely into further collaboration with Emerald Literati Network and perhaps focus more on publishing in Emerald journals,’ said Adewumi.  

‘It was such a delight to be granted this award,’ said Adewumi. ‘It is good to see that hard work does not go unnoticed or unrewarded, especially in research.  Even when it seems unrecognised, diligence and dedication to research will always speak for the committed researcher sooner or later.’ 

Adewumi will receive his award certificate at a conference later this year.

Christine Cuénod