University of the Witwatersrand is a prestigious public university established in 1922 in South Africa. It is represented by 1,809 scientists in the AD Scientific Index. The university’s scientists are particularly concentrated in Social Sciences and Humanities (486 scientists), Medical and Health Sciences (213 scientists), and Social Sciences (202 scientists).

Total 32 scientist
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Leketi Makalela
Languages and Literacies (Reading Literacy
Multilingualism
translanguaging
World Englishes
Language Policy & Planning)
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
22
0.846
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Maxwell Kadenge
phonology
african languages
world englishes
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
10
0.625
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Kerryn Dixon
Critical Literacy
Early Literacy
Foucault
Spatio-temporal analyses
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
11
0.786
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Sharon Moonsamy
Language Development & Disorder
Cognition
Teaching & Learning
Metacognition
Literacy
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
8
0.800
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Andrew Van Der Spuy
Morphology
Syntax
Construction Grammar
Bantu grammar
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Judith Inggs
Translation Studies
Children's Literature
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Naomi Nkealah
African literature
gender and feminist studies
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8
8
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Ilse Fouche
Academic Literacy
English for Academic Purposes
English for Specific Purposes
Language Assessment
Multi-literacies
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8
6
0.750
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Dan Ojwang
African Literature
English
Literatures of the Indian Ocean
Migrant Literature
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8
3
0.375
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Ramona Kunene Nicolas
Psycholinguistics
Oral narrative development
Gesture
Bantu language acquisition
Multilingualism
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7
6
0.857
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Pamela Nichols
writing
writing centres
comparative literature
citizen scholar
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
Literture
black film
oral literture
popular culture and media studies
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Gilles Baro
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic Landscape Studies
Critical Discourse Studies
Multimodality
Social Semiotics
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu
Languages
Onomastics
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Literature
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Khwezi Mkhize
African Literature
Empire
Diaspora
Postcolonial Theory
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Megan Scott
Genetic counselling
medical genetics
health communication
sociolinguistic methodology
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Peter Merisi
English Education
Pre-service teachers' beliefs
emergency remote teaching
academic literacy
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Gilberto Alves Araújo
discourse analysis
french discourse analysis
critical discourse analysis
English language
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Fiona Horne
Language education
French L2 acquisition
Autobiography
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Simon Van Schalkwyk
C20th poetry and fiction
USA
South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Eva Kowalska
American literature
South African literature
poetry
drug literature
the Beat Generation
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Alyssa Vratsanos
Linguistic Landscape Studies
Diaspora Studies
Food Studies
Geosemiotics
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
2
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Leketi Makalela
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
22
0.846
Languages and Literacies (Reading Literacy
Multilingualism
translanguaging
World Englishes
Language Policy & Planning)
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Maxwell Kadenge
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
10
0.625
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Kerryn Dixon
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
11
0.786
Critical Literacy
Early Literacy
Foucault
Spatio-temporal analyses
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Sharon Moonsamy
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
8
0.800
Language Development & Disorder
Cognition
Teaching & Learning
Metacognition
Literacy
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Andrew Van Der Spuy
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
Morphology
Syntax
Construction Grammar
Bantu grammar
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Judith Inggs
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Naomi Nkealah
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8
8
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Ilse Fouche
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8
6
0.750
Academic Literacy
English for Academic Purposes
English for Specific Purposes
Language Assessment
Multi-literacies
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Dan Ojwang
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8
3
0.375
African Literature
English
Literatures of the Indian Ocean
Migrant Literature
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ramona Kunene Nicolas
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7
6
0.857
Psycholinguistics
Oral narrative development
Gesture
Bantu language acquisition
Multilingualism
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Pamela Nichols
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
writing
writing centres
comparative literature
citizen scholar
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Maria Prozesky
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
Literture
black film
oral literture
popular culture and media studies
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Gilles Baro
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic Landscape Studies
Critical Discourse Studies
Multimodality
Social Semiotics
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
Languages
Onomastics
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Literature
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Khwezi Mkhize
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
African Literature
Empire
Diaspora
Postcolonial Theory
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Megan Scott
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
Genetic counselling
medical genetics
health communication
sociolinguistic methodology
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Peter Merisi
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
English Education
Pre-service teachers' beliefs
emergency remote teaching
academic literacy
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Gilberto Alves Araújo
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
4
1.000
discourse analysis
french discourse analysis
critical discourse analysis
English language
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Fiona Horne
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Language education
French L2 acquisition
Autobiography
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Simon Van Schalkwyk
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Phillippa Yaa De Villiers
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Christopher Fotheringham
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Eva Kowalska
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
American literature
South African literature
poetry
drug literature
the Beat Generation
* Total H Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Alyssa Vratsanos
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
2
1.000
Linguistic Landscape Studies
Diaspora Studies
Food Studies
Geosemiotics