i10 Productivity
Rankings
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science i10 Productivity Rankings in South Africa 2025
Productivity Rankings is an exclusive service provided by AD Scientific Index. This ranking system, derived from the i10 index, highlights the productivity of scientists in publishing impactful scientific articles. Productivity Rankings serves as a tool to identify highly productive scientists across specific areas, disciplines, universities, and countries, and supports the creation of effective incentives and academic policies. The global, regional, and institutional rankings of scientists in this table are calculated based on their total i10 index. Moreover, you can explore special rankings derived from Productivity Rankings, such as Scientists Last 6 Years' i10 Index, Universities Total i10 Index Rankings 2025, Universities Last 6 Years' i10 Index Rankings 2025, Art and Humanities i10 Productivity Rankings, and Social Sciences and Humanities i10 Productivity Rankings.
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Artificial Intelligence
AI Governance
Policy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
260
135
0.519
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Bioinformatics
statistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
216
126
0.583
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Control Theory
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
214
144
0.673
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Internet of Things
Wireless sensor networks
software-defined networking
Low-power wide area networks
Network security
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
151
142
0.940
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
digital forensics
cyber security
information security
network security
privacy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
136
99
0.728
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Speech technology
pattern recognition
machine learning
deep neural networks
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
120
30
0.250
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Cybersecurity and AI/Data Science
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
101
40
0.396
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Testing
Symbolic Execution
Software Engineering
Model Checing
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
100
56
0.560
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Cybersecurity
(Health) Data Science
Remote Sensing
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
95
84
0.884
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Information Cyber Security
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
93
48
0.516
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Artificial Intelligence
Industry 4.0/5.0
Control Engineering
Evolutionary Optimization
Chaos
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
92
84
0.913
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Ontology
ontologies
Semantic Web
Conceptual Modeling
Knowledge Representation and reasoning
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88
46
0.523
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
software engineering
program generation
program verification
formal methods
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
87
31
0.356
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Electrochemistry
Electrocatalysis
Energy Storage devices
Electrodeposition
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
86
72
0.837
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
LIS Education
Information Seeking
Knowledge Management
Applied Bibliometrics&ICT4D
Information Ethics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
87
52
0.598
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Questioned digital documents
digital forensics
digital forensic science
database forensics
computing ethics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
87
26
0.299
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
ICT4D
technology adoption
cloud computing
SOA
mobile technology
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
48
0.565
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Computer Vision
Medical Image Analysis
Machine Learning
Image Processing
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
86
78
0.907
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Data Science
Applied Statistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81
65
0.802
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Information and Communications Technology for Development
User Experience in Games and Virtual Environments
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
78
23
0.295
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Global Optimization
Operations Research
Optimal Control Theorey
MINLP
Optimization in Big-Data
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80
47
0.588
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Information Systems
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76
52
0.684
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Representation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
38
0.514
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Mobile Computing
ICT4D
Interaction Design
HCI
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72
28
0.389
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Energy
Power System
Power Electronics
Artificial Intelligence
Quality
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
75
69
0.920
Tshilidzi Marwala
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
260
135
0.519
Artificial Intelligence
AI Governance
Policy
Gerard Tromp
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
216
126
0.583
Bao-Zhu Guo
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
214
144
0.673
Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
151
142
0.940
Internet of Things
Wireless sensor networks
software-defined networking
Low-power wide area networks
Network security
HS Venter
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
136
99
0.728
digital forensics
cyber security
information security
network security
privacy
Etienne Barnard
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
120
30
0.250
Speech technology
pattern recognition
machine learning
deep neural networks
Jan Eloff
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
101
40
0.396
Cybersecurity and AI/Data Science
Willem Visser
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
100
56
0.560
Testing
Symbolic Execution
Software Engineering
Model Checing
Turgay Celik
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
95
84
0.884
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Cybersecurity
(Health) Data Science
Remote Sensing
SH Basie B Von Solms
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
93
48
0.516
Information Cyber Security
Zenghui Wang
University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
92
84
0.913
Artificial Intelligence
Industry 4.0/5.0
Control Engineering
Evolutionary Optimization
Chaos
C. Maria Keet
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88
46
0.523
Ontology
ontologies
Semantic Web
Conceptual Modeling
Knowledge Representation and reasoning
Bernd Fischer
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
87
31
0.356
software engineering
program generation
program verification
formal methods
Mkhulu Mathe
University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
86
72
0.837
Electrochemistry
Electrocatalysis
Energy Storage devices
Electrodeposition
Dennis N Ocholla
University of Zululand
Kwadlangezwa, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
87
52
0.598
LIS Education
Information Seeking
Knowledge Management
Applied Bibliometrics&ICT4D
Information Ethics
Martin S Olivier
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
87
26
0.299
Questioned digital documents
digital forensics
digital forensic science
database forensics
computing ethics
Jean-Paul Van Belle
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
48
0.565
ICT4D
technology adoption
cloud computing
SOA
mobile technology
Serestina Viriri
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
86
78
0.907
Computer Vision
Medical Image Analysis
Machine Learning
Image Processing
Temesgen Zewotir
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81
65
0.802
Data Science
Applied Statistics
Edwin Blake
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
78
23
0.295
Information and Communications Technology for Development
User Experience in Games and Virtual Environments
Montaz Ali
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80
47
0.588
Global Optimization
Operations Research
Optimal Control Theorey
MINLP
Optimization in Big-Data
Irwin Brown
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76
52
0.684
Thomas Meyer
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
38
0.514
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Representation
Gary Marsden
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72
28
0.389
Mobile Computing
ICT4D
Interaction Design
HCI
Popoola Olawale M
Tshwane University of Technology
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
75
69
0.920
Energy
Power System
Power Electronics
Artificial Intelligence
Quality