Citation Rankings
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South Africa Highly Cited Researchers Citation Law in South Africa Rankings 2025
Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) and the list of the most cited and influential researchers cover a wide range of scientific fields, spanning 197 main and sub-disciplines, as well as the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings, offering a unique service. Additionally, the list without CERN, Statistical Data, etc., provided exclusively by “AD Scientific Index”, is part of our effort to balance the situation created by CERN and researchers with statistical data, who have an advantage over others, especially those in the social and humanities fields. There should be new regulations for multi-author and CERN papers. Citation lists also reveal many rule violations and unethical practices. See also for more specific citation analyses: Scientists Last 6 years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025 and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Criminology
policing
environmental security
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,163
4,474
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
General Relativity
Dark Energy
Modified theories of gravity
Cosmology
Integrability
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,868
6,585
0.837
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Salmonella
tuberculosis
campylobacter
Lawsonia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,944
2,640
0.444
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Systems analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,688
1,608
0.283
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Environmental law
environmental rights
environmental constitutionalism
Anthropocene
earth system
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,611
2,789
0.772
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Bioethics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,438
2,084
0.606
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
International Human Rights Law
Regional Human Rights Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,285
1,192
0.363
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
criminolgy
urban studies
ethnography
urban safety
security governance
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,638
992
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Constitutional law
International Human Rights Law
Social Rights
Equality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,100
679
0.323
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
comparative law
comparative constitutional law
legal history
media law
international law
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,064
1,023
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
law and social change
courts and the poor
socio-economic rights including land
gender-based harm on campus
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,833
732
0.399
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
rights & regulation
competition policy
legal profession
migration & citizenship
South & Southern Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,714
644
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Constitutional Law
human rights
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,684
500
0.297
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Chldren's rights
family law
human rights
equality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,600
571
0.357
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
federalism
multilevel government
local government
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,499
714
0.476
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Law. health research
HIVm children
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,401
580
0.414
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Human Rights
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
International Law
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,395
753
0.540
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
International children's rights
restorative justice
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,336
480
0.359
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Urban law and governance
socio-economic rights
constitutional law
law and urban space
right to health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,331
466
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
health
disability
race
culture. sexualities
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,282
487
0.380
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Constitutional law
sexual orientation
non-discrimination
social and economic rights
judiciary
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,240
421
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Local Government
Decentralisation
Federalism
intergovernmental relations
development planning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,210
627
0.518
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
International law
International criminal law
JUS COGENS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,161
774
0.667
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Public Procurement
Open Government
Integrity & Anti-Corruption
WTO Law
Development Law
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,111
543
0.489
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Medical Law
Bioethics
Human Rights
Neuropathology
Public Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,081
504
0.466
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
48,452
155
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Clifford Shearing
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,163
4,474
0.261
Criminology
policing
environmental security
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
125,501
467
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Andronikos Paliathanasis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,868
6,585
0.837
General Relativity
Dark Energy
Modified theories of gravity
Cosmology
Integrability
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
168,484
672
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ml Van Der Walt Swanepoel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,944
2,640
0.444
Salmonella
tuberculosis
campylobacter
Lawsonia
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
176,013
713
89
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Mary Scholes
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,688
1,608
0.283
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
269,108
1,151
50
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Louis J. Kotzé
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,611
2,789
0.772
Environmental law
environmental rights
environmental constitutionalism
Anthropocene
earth system
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
280,710
1,210
159
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Keymanthri Moodley
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,438
2,084
0.606
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
291,859
1,271
112
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Frans Viljoen
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,285
1,192
0.363
International Human Rights Law
Regional Human Rights Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
349,511
1,578
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Monique Michal Marks
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,638
992
0.376
criminolgy
urban studies
ethnography
urban safety
security governance
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
415,454
1,943
253
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Sandra Liebenberg
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,100
679
0.323
Constitutional law
International Human Rights Law
Social Rights
Equality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
420,771
1,987
197
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Charles Manga Fombad
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,064
1,023
0.496
comparative law
comparative constitutional law
legal history
media law
international law
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
458,322
2,186
235
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Jackie Dugard
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,833
732
0.399
law and social change
courts and the poor
socio-economic rights including land
gender-based harm on campus
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
479,749
2,282
249
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Jonathan Klaaren
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,714
644
0.376
rights & regulation
competition policy
legal profession
migration & citizenship
South & Southern Africa
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
485,444
2,317
254
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Catherine Albertyn
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,684
500
0.297
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
502,619
2,420
83
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,600
571
0.357
Chldren's rights
family law
human rights
equality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
524,675
2,555
89
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Nicolaas Steytler
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,499
714
0.476
federalism
multilevel government
local government
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,389
2,673
226
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Ann Strode
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,401
580
0.414
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
548,795
2,690
482
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Danwood Chirwa
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,395
753
0.540
Human Rights
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
International Law
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
563,836
2,781
280
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Ann Skelton
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,336
480
0.359
International children's rights
restorative justice
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
565,135
2,787
292
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Marius Pieterse
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,331
466
0.350
Urban law and governance
socio-economic rights
constitutional law
law and urban space
right to health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
578,202
2,878
291
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Charles Ngwena
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,282
487
0.380
health
disability
race
culture. sexualities
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
589,843
2,938
508
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Pierre De Vos
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,240
421
0.340
Constitutional law
sexual orientation
non-discrimination
social and economic rights
judiciary
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
598,327
2,993
105
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Jaap De Visser
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,210
627
0.518
Local Government
Decentralisation
Federalism
intergovernmental relations
development planning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
612,757
3,073
312
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Dire Tladi
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,161
774
0.667
International law
International criminal law
JUS COGENS
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
628,719
3,164
390
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Sope Williams-Elegbe
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,111
543
0.489
Public Procurement
Open Government
Integrity & Anti-Corruption
WTO Law
Development Law
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
638,407
3,211
261
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Sylvester Chima|Sylvester C Chima, MD, Chima S C
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,081
504
0.466
Medical Law
Bioethics
Human Rights
Neuropathology
Public Health