Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Stellenbosch University Highly Cited Researchers Citation 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 :1,651
Machine Learning
Statistics
Bayesian Inference
Process Modelling and Monitoring
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,652
Quantum Biology
Quantum Computation
Quantum Chemistry
Drug Discovery
Quantum Simulation
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Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,653
Editing
academic editing
lexicography
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,654
Landscape ecology
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Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,655
Biography
Nationalism
Afrikaner history
Anticommunism
Religious history
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,656
South African music history
intellectual history
decolonial studies
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,657
Performance Measurement and Management. Business Process Engineering. Reverse Engineering. Business
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
2
0.500
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,658
syntax
negation
polarity
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Last 6 Years / Total
4
2
0.500
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,659
High Performance Sport
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
1
0.250
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,660
Honeybee pathology
Honeybee immunology
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Last 6 Years / Total
4
1
0.250
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,661
Finance
Economics
Financial Planning
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Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,662
Transformation
Student Success
Student Support
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,663
Transport Economics
urban development
transport funding and financing
user-pays principles
marginal social costs of road use
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Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,664
food security
post harvest
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Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,665
Social insects
phylogeography
population genetics
evolution of sociality in insects
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,666
Quantile Regression
Extreme Value Theory
Generalized Linear Models
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Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,667
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,668
Theoretical Chemistry
Computational Chemistry
Quantum Chemistry
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,669
Plant ecology
Plant ecophysiology
Climate change
Remote sensing
Medicinal plants
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,670
Accounting education and corporate governance
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,671
Molecular Biology
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Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,672
Internal Medicine
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,673
Literature
Genocide
Psychoanalysis
Cultural Studies
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,674
Machine learning
deep learning theory
Bayesian machine learning
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,675
Strategic Studies
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,291,662
17,818
1,643
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,651
Marno Basson
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
Machine Learning
Statistics
Bayesian Inference
Process Modelling and Monitoring
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,291,662
17,818
1,643
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,652
Abbas Hassasfar
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
Quantum Biology
Quantum Computation
Quantum Chemistry
Drug Discovery
Quantum Simulation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,291,662
17,818
1,643
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,653
Maret Blom De Wet
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,291,662
17,818
1,643
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,654
Liaam Davids
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,291,662
17,818
1,643
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,655
Ruhan Fourie
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
Biography
Nationalism
Afrikaner history
Anticommunism
Religious history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,291,662
17,818
1,643
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,656
Mieke Struwig
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
South African music history
intellectual history
decolonial studies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,309,130
17,997
1,657
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,657
Claudia Bernadine Struwig (Visagie)
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
2
0.500
Performance Measurement and Management. Business Process Engineering. Reverse Engineering. Business
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,309,130
17,997
1,657
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,658
Jean-Marie Potgieter
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
2
0.500
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,310,685
18,019
1,659
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,659
Grant Van Velden
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
1
0.250
High Performance Sport
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,310,685
18,019
1,659
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,660
Yordan Hristov
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
1
0.250
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,661
Mosili Lepheana
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,662
Ilse Frans
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,663
Helvi Petrus
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Transport Economics
urban development
transport funding and financing
user-pays principles
marginal social costs of road use
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,664
Buhle Maphosa
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,665
Damien Gergonne
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Social insects
phylogeography
population genetics
evolution of sociality in insects
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,666
Mashishi Daniel
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Quantile Regression
Extreme Value Theory
Generalized Linear Models
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,667
Brian Sm Munansangu
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,668
Shane De Beer
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Theoretical Chemistry
Computational Chemistry
Quantum Chemistry
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,669
Maanda Raselabe
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Plant ecology
Plant ecophysiology
Climate change
Remote sensing
Medicinal plants
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,670
Lynn Van Rooyen
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Accounting education and corporate governance
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,671
Nuhu Ibrahim Tukur
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,672
Luthando Vazi
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,673
Lauren Van Der Rede
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Literature
Genocide
Psychoanalysis
Cultural Studies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,674
Felix Mcgregor
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Machine learning
deep learning theory
Bayesian machine learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,312,862
18,042
1,661
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,675
David Jacobs
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000