Comparative Study of Research Publication among Professionals in Nigeria: A Study of Engineers and Medical Laboratory Scientists in Edo Central, Edo State, Nigeria

In this research work, 100 professional were administered with well-structured questionnaire in Edo central of Edo state, Nigeria to determine the level of publications of research findings by professional that is engineers and medical laboratory scientists, it was found out that 45(90%) out of the 50 MLS examined published their work  while 35(70%) out of the 50 engineers published their work and it was found that those with PhD and Masters published most of their work and the distributions of publications by qualification was not statistically significant(p>0.05) and many factors such as lack of  finances, lack of knowledge of the use of the new available cutting edge technology as constrict to publications of research findings.