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![Thavendran Govender](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/35/91448.jpg)
Drug Discovery
Synthetic Chemistry
Brain Diseases
Drug Resistant Bacteria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,911
10,250
0.737
![Neerish Revaprasadu](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/62/95663.jpg)
Nanoscience
Materials Chemistry
Semiconductors...
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,453
4,044
0.543
![Khajamohiddin Syed](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/84/100973.jpg)
Cytochrome P450
Annotation
Structure-function analysis
Evolution & Applications
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,623
3,479
0.619
![Elumalai Vetrimurugan](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/14/96949.jpg)
Hydrogeology
groundwater modelling
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,319
2,207
0.952
![Malik Dilshad Khan](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/6b/93143.jpg)
Materials Chemistry
Thin films
Inorganic materials
Semiconductors
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,850
1,663
0.899
![Ina Shaw|Brandon Stuwart Shaw, B S Shaw, B Shaw](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/aa/99573.jpg)
Physical activity and public health
Non-Communicable Disease
Healthy aging
Exercise physiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,824
1,602
0.567
![Dennis N Ocholla](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/ee/106257.jpg)
LIS Education
Information Seeking
Knowledge Management
Applied Bibliometrics&ICT4D
Information Ethics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,809
1,539
0.404
![Ina Shaw|I Shaw](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/55/4343520.jpg)
Physical Activity and Public Health
Health Behaviour Change
Non-Communicable Disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,458
1,485
0.604
![Beesham A](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/8e/104861.jpg)
General Relativity
Cosmology
Relativistic Astrophysics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,175
1,365
0.430
![Fabian Nde Fon](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/40/97419.jpg)
Ruminant Nutrition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,615
1,278
0.791
![Helene De Wet](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/df/98979.jpg)
Medicinal plants
ethnobotany
ethnopharmacology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,823
1,063
0.583
![Anass Bayaga](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/d6/103921.jpg)
Neuro-Mathematics and Information Systems & Technology Risk
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,351
1,061
0.785
![Ikechukwu O. Ezeuduji](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/49/99510.jpg)
Strategic Tourism Management
Strategic Tourism Marketing
Rural Tourism
Tourism Entrepreneurship
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,359
1,045
0.769
![Ioannis Kortidis](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/f2/99610.jpg)
Metal Oxides Semiconductors for Indoor and Outdoor Gas Sensing Monitoring
Photocatalysis and Energy Harvesting Applications
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,214
923
0.760
![Surafel Luleseged Tilahun](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/3a/91081.jpg)
Operations Research
Decision Science
Data Science
Metaheuristics
Applied and Computational Mathematics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,350
882
0.653
![Evelyn Madoroba](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/93/97355.jpg)
Microbiology
Molecular Microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
973
770
0.791
![Matthew O. Adigun](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/cc/93536.jpg)
Software Engineering
Mobile Edge Computing Systems
Web intelligence
ICT4D
Security of Grid/Cloud Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,523
747
0.490
![Rajasekhar Pullabhotla](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/ae/89155.jpg)
Oxidation reactions
ozone
catalysis
nanomaterials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,232
620
0.503
![Steven Solethu Nkosi](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/a5/91015.jpg)
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Gas sensors
Ferromagnetic properties
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
842
523
0.621
![Nokukhanya Noqiniselo Jili](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/fc/4636820.jpg)
Governance
Local Economic Development
Service delivery
Public Policy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
545
519
0.952
![Ayansola Ayandibu](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/b4/4468320.jpg)
Strategy
Innovation
Small Business Development
Performance Management
Business sustainability
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
523
477
0.912
![Marshall L. Mdoka](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/a0/93408.jpg)
Climatology
Climate modeling
Climate change
GIS
Sustainable Development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,184
405
0.342
![Morgan Ndlovu](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Decoloniality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
460
400
0.870
![Hemduth Rugbeer](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Digital Communication
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
429
353
0.823
![Samantha Govender](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/1b/5838183.jpg)
Curriculum Studies
Teacher Professional Development
Teaching
Learning & Assessment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
357
346
0.969
Thavendran Govender
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,911
10,250
0.737
Drug Discovery
Synthetic Chemistry
Brain Diseases
Drug Resistant Bacteria
Neerish Revaprasadu
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,453
4,044
0.543
Nanoscience
Materials Chemistry
Semiconductors...
Khajamohiddin Syed
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,623
3,479
0.619
Cytochrome P450
Annotation
Structure-function analysis
Evolution & Applications
Elumalai Vetrimurugan
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,319
2,207
0.952
Hydrogeology
groundwater modelling
Malik Dilshad Khan
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,850
1,663
0.899
Materials Chemistry
Thin films
Inorganic materials
Semiconductors
Ina Shaw|Brandon Stuwart Shaw, B S Shaw, B Shaw
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,824
1,602
0.567
Physical activity and public health
Non-Communicable Disease
Healthy aging
Exercise physiology
Dennis N Ocholla
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,809
1,539
0.404
LIS Education
Information Seeking
Knowledge Management
Applied Bibliometrics&ICT4D
Information Ethics
Ina Shaw|I Shaw
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,458
1,485
0.604
Physical Activity and Public Health
Health Behaviour Change
Non-Communicable Disease
Beesham A
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,175
1,365
0.430
General Relativity
Cosmology
Relativistic Astrophysics
Fabian Nde Fon
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,615
1,278
0.791
Helene De Wet
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,823
1,063
0.583
Medicinal plants
ethnobotany
ethnopharmacology
Anass Bayaga
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,351
1,061
0.785
Neuro-Mathematics and Information Systems & Technology Risk
Ikechukwu O. Ezeuduji
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,359
1,045
0.769
Strategic Tourism Management
Strategic Tourism Marketing
Rural Tourism
Tourism Entrepreneurship
Ioannis Kortidis
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,214
923
0.760
Metal Oxides Semiconductors for Indoor and Outdoor Gas Sensing Monitoring
Photocatalysis and Energy Harvesting Applications
Surafel Luleseged Tilahun
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,350
882
0.653
Operations Research
Decision Science
Data Science
Metaheuristics
Applied and Computational Mathematics
Evelyn Madoroba
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
973
770
0.791
Microbiology
Molecular Microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance
Matthew O. Adigun
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,523
747
0.490
Software Engineering
Mobile Edge Computing Systems
Web intelligence
ICT4D
Security of Grid/Cloud Systems
Rajasekhar Pullabhotla
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,232
620
0.503
Oxidation reactions
ozone
catalysis
nanomaterials
Steven Solethu Nkosi
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
842
523
0.621
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Gas sensors
Ferromagnetic properties
Nokukhanya Noqiniselo Jili
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
545
519
0.952
Governance
Local Economic Development
Service delivery
Public Policy
Ayansola Ayandibu
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
523
477
0.912
Strategy
Innovation
Small Business Development
Performance Management
Business sustainability
Marshall L. Mdoka
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,184
405
0.342
Climatology
Climate modeling
Climate change
GIS
Sustainable Development
Morgan Ndlovu
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
460
400
0.870
Hemduth Rugbeer
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
429
353
0.823
Samantha Govender
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
![South Africa](/flags/za.png)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
357
346
0.969
Curriculum Studies
Teacher Professional Development
Teaching
Learning & Assessment