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 H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection :1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 :12
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection :13
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 :22
poetry
nature
Africa
gender
teaching
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection :23
Translation
Postcolonial Literature
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection :24
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
Linguistic Landscape Studies
Diaspora Studies
Food Studies
Geosemiotics
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
2
1.000
Leketi Makalela
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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)
Maxwell Kadenge
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
10
0.625
phonology
african languages
world englishes
Kerryn Dixon
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
11
0.786
Critical Literacy
Early Literacy
Foucault
Spatio-temporal analyses
Sharon Moonsamy
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
8
0.800
Language Development & Disorder
Cognition
Teaching & Learning
Metacognition
Literacy
Andrew Van Der Spuy
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
Morphology
Syntax
Construction Grammar
Bantu grammar
Judith Inggs
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
Translation Studies
Children's Literature
Naomi Nkealah
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8
8
1.000
African literature
gender and feminist studies
Ilse Fouche
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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
Dan Ojwang
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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
Ramona Kunene Nicolas
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7
6
0.857
Psycholinguistics
Oral narrative development
Gesture
Bantu language acquisition
Multilingualism
Pamela Nichols
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
writing
writing centres
comparative literature
citizen scholar
Maria Prozesky
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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
Gilles Baro
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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
Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6
5
0.833
Languages
Onomastics
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Literature
Khwezi Mkhize
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
African Literature
Empire
Diaspora
Postcolonial Theory
Megan Scott
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5
5
1.000
Genetic counselling
medical genetics
health communication
sociolinguistic methodology
Peter Merisi
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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
Gilberto Alves Araújo
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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
Fiona Horne
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Language education
French L2 acquisition
Autobiography
Simon Van Schalkwyk
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
C20th poetry and fiction
USA
South Africa
Phillippa Yaa De Villiers
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
poetry
nature
Africa
gender
teaching
Christopher Fotheringham
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
Translation
Postcolonial Literature
Eva Kowalska
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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
Alyssa Vratsanos
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
2
1.000
Linguistic Landscape Studies
Diaspora Studies
Food Studies
Geosemiotics