Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
South Africa Scientists Citation in South Africa Rankings 2024
Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) 2024 and list of influential and most cited researchers in Agriculture and Forestry, Art, Design and Architecture, Business and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Education, Engineering and Technology, History, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Medicine and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and their 256 sub-branches is a unique service offered only by “AD Scientific Index”. You can see the most cited and influential researchers in the country and region. See also for more specific citation analyses: "last 6 years citation index" Universities Rankings 2024 (Sort by: Total Citations) and Universities Rankings 2024 (Sort by : Last 6 Years Citations)
| Total Citation Counts | AD Scientific Index - World Citation Ranking - 2024 | Citation Metrics | ||||||||
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| University Rank | Country Rank | Region Rank | World Rank | Name | Country | University / Institution |
Subject Research Areas |
Total | Last 6 Year | Last 6 year/total |
| 1 | 1 | 5 | 254 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
High Energy Particle Physics | |
278,099 | 119,539 | 0.430 | |
| 2 | 2 | 8 | 801 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Medical and Health Sciences / Psychiatry
Anxiety disorders | Psychiatry in Africa | |
194,141 | 114,617 | 0.590 | |
| 1 | 3 | 9 | 960 |
South Africa
|
University of the Witwatersrand
|
Natural Sciences / Biological Science
carbon cycle | savannas | earth observation | biodiversity | |
177,356 | 69,668 | 0.393 | |
| 3 | 4 | 15 | 1,551 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Medical and Health Sciences / Cardiology
cardiology | heart failure | Africa | peripartum | covid | |
139,008 | 86,477 | 0.622 | |
| 1 | 5 | 18 | 1,806 |
South Africa
|
University of Johannesburg
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
HEP | LHC | ATLAS | |
128,676 | 87,973 | 0.684 | |
| 4 | 6 | 19 | 1,817 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Others
Medicine | |
128,345 | 72,814 | 0.567 | |
| 2 | 7 | 20 | 1,907 |
South Africa
|
University of the Witwatersrand
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
Particle Physics | |
124,726 | 54,211 | 0.435 | |
| 1 | 8 | 28 | 3,122 |
South Africa
|
Stellenbosch University
|
Natural Sciences / Biological Science
invasion ecology | invasion biology | invasion science | conservation biology | biological invasions | |
96,759 | 40,671 | 0.420 | |
| 5 | 9 | 29 | 3,265 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
|
94,928 | 54,580 | 0.575 | |
| 6 | 10 | 34 | 4,421 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
Physics | Thermal Models | particle Physics | |
79,835 | 37,775 | 0.473 | |
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| 1 | 11 | 35 | 4,705 |
South Africa
|
University of Pretoria
|
Agriculture & Forestry / Forestry
forest protection | mycology | entomology | biotechnology | |
77,069 | 34,143 | 0.443 | |
| 3 | 12 | 36 | 4,901 |
South Africa
|
University of the Witwatersrand
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
Condensed Matter | Density Functional Theory | Electronic Structure | |
75,639 | 39,064 | 0.516 | |
| 2 | 13 | 39 | 5,128 |
South Africa
|
University of Johannesburg
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
Nuclear Physics | Particle Physics | Diamond Physics | Quantum Physics | |
73,748 | 37,055 | 0.502 | |
| 4 | 14 | 41 | 5,511 |
South Africa
|
University of the Witwatersrand
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
High Energy physics | Grid Computing | |
70,436 | 36,772 | 0.522 | |
| 7 | 15 | 43 | 5,950 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Medical and Health Sciences / Chest Diseases
Respiratory medicine | |
67,074 | 24,746 | 0.369 | |
| 8 | 16 | 44 | 6,054 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Natural Sciences / Biological Science
Ecology | evolution | |
66,290 | 28,097 | 0.424 | |
| 9 | 17 | 45 | 6,063 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Medical and Health Sciences / Pediatric Cardiology
Paediatric Cardiology | |
66,240 | 55,897 | 0.844 | |
| 2 | 18 | 46 | 6,464 |
South Africa
|
Stellenbosch University
|
Medical and Health Sciences / Epidemiology and Public Health
Global Health | Evidence synthesis | Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Vaccinology | HIV | |
63,698 | 60,674 | 0.953 | |
| 1 | 19 | 47 | 6,487 |
South Africa
|
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
|
Others
Running | Nutrition | Exercise Physiology | Insulin Resistance | Diabetes | |
63,585 | 14,186 | 0.223 | |
| 5 | 20 | 49 | 6,680 |
South Africa
|
University of the Witwatersrand
|
History, Philosophy, Theology / History
African politics | history | colonialism | race | enlightenment | |
62,464 | 37,283 | 0.597 | |
| 6 | 21 | 51 | 6,877 |
South Africa
|
University of the Witwatersrand
|
Natural Sciences / Physics
Astrophysics | Cosmology | Astro-Particle Physics | |
61,416 | 28,940 | 0.471 | |
| 7 | 22 | 53 | 7,189 |
South Africa
|
University of the Witwatersrand
|
First interest | Second interest | Vaccinology | Respiratory pathogens | |
59,748 | 37,773 | 0.632 | |
| 10 | 23 | 55 | 7,412 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Medical and Health Sciences / Pediatrics and Child Health
|
58,463 | 34,169 | 0.584 | |
| 11 | 24 | 61 | 8,338 |
South Africa
|
University of Cape Town
|
Engineering & Technology / Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
astronomy and astrophysics | |
54,465 | 20,717 | 0.380 | |
| 1 | 25 | 62 | 8,756 |
South Africa
|
University of Kwazulu Natal
|
Natural Sciences / Chemical Sciences
medicinal chemistry | peptides | |
52,927 | 24,236 | 0.458 | |