Annual Report

LABEF : une année 2025 placée sous le signe de l’excellence scientifique, de l’innovation et de l’impact !

Le Laboratoire de Biomathématiques et d’Estimations Forestières (LABEF) de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi revient sur une année 2025 riche en réalisations et en perspectives.

🔬 57 publications scientifiques dans des revues à comité de lecture, dont 70,18 % dans des journaux à facteur d’impact ;
🎓 26 étudiants de Master diplômés et 8 thèses de doctorat soutenues ;
🌍 Des collaborations scientifiques avec des chercheurs de 53 pays ;
📊 Le renforcement de la formation en biostatistique, biométrie, intelligence artificielle et apprentissage automatique ;
🌱 Des contributions majeures à la conservation de la biodiversité, la gestion des mangroves, la lutte contre le changement climatique et la gestion durable des ressources forestières ;
🏆 Plusieurs distinctions scientifiques, dont l’élection du Prof. Romain Glèlè Kakaï à l’African Academy of Sciences et le Prix scientifique AUF 2025 décerné au Dr Kolawolé Valère Salako.

Au-delà des chiffres, 2025 témoigne d’une dynamique forte : former, innover, produire des connaissances et les mettre au service de la société.

✨ LABEF, au cœur de la science pour un développement durable et résilient en Afrique.

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In 2024, the scientific articles were published in 36 journals as summarized. Several research domains were covered. Among the sixteen research domains covered, biometry (12 published papers), forestry (10 published papers), machine learning (7 published papers), agroforestry (4 published papers), Ecology (4 published papers), and Epidemiology (3 published papers) were the most investigated

Collaboration for publications was done with researchers from several countries. In 2023, LABEF members collaborated with researchers from 24 countries, national collaborations being the most dominant (61.90%). The most represented continent for these collaborations was Africa more than 88.10%, followed by Europe more than 7.74%

In 2022, LABEF produced a total of 52 scientific documents. Among these documents, 96.23% were scientific publications in peer-review journals (51 published papers), and 3.77% were books and book chapters (1 document).

LABEF produced a total of 51 scientific documents. Among these documents in 2021, 96.08% were scientific publications in peer-review journals (49 published papers), and 3.92% were books and book chapters (2 documents).

In 2020, LABEF produced a total of 71 scientific documents. Among these documents , 66.20% was scientific publications in peer-review journals (47 published papers), 14.08% was books and book chapters (10 documents), 9.86% was scientific papers in press (07 documents), 8.45% was scientific paper under review (06 documents) and 1.41% was abstracts in proceedings (01 document).