i10 Productivity
Rankings
Economics & Econometrics i10 Productivity Rankings in South Africa 2025
Productivity Rankings is a unique service offered only by “AD Scientific Index”. This is a ranking system derived from the i10 index in order to show the productivity of the scientist in publishing scientific articles of value. Productivity Rankings is an instrument that lists productive scientists in a given area, discipline, university, and country and can guide the development of meaningful incentives and academic policies. The world rankings, regional rankings, and university rankings of scientists in this table are developed based on the total i10 index. Additionally, click to view the special rankings based on Productivity Rankings: 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
Macroecomomics
forecasting
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
658
519
0.789
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Macroeconomic Policy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
226
208
0.920
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Infectious Diseases
HIV
Tuberculosis
Health Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
217
153
0.705
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Labour Economics
Poverty and Income Distribution
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
157
87
0.554
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Poverty
Inequality
Social Mobility
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
154
100
0.649
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Economics
political science
development
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
135
78
0.578
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Economic Methodology
Game Theory
Philosophy of Science
Experimental Economics
Addiction
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
107
58
0.542
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Tobacco Control
NCD prevention
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
97
72
0.742
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
development economics poverty land
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
97
49
0.505
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Economic demography
Gender
Labour economics
Well-being
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96
69
0.719
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Poverty
inequality
unemployment
social assistance
impact evaluation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96
54
0.563
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Construction_industry
HIV_AIDS
Workplace_stress and construction management
HIV/AIDS and prevention
Workplace stress work-fa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
89
57
0.640
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Energy economics and policy
environmental economics
applied economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
79
0.929
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Development Economics
Health Economics
Microeconomics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
69
0.812
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Applied Financial Econometrics
Public Economics
Development Finance
Emerging Market Economies
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84
78
0.929
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Corporate governance
auditing
accountability
financial reporting
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83
78
0.940
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
HIV
AIDS
Health
Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82
60
0.732
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Environmental
Health
& Development Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79
51
0.646
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
78
58
0.744
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
philosophy of social science philosophy of science
experimental economics
causality
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
78
52
0.667
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Economics
Tourism Economics
Applied Econometrics
Forecasting
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
57
0.770
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Competition Economics
Industrial Development
Competition Policy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73
39
0.534
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Water resources management
Water accounting
Water Footprint
Food
Irrigation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
70
54
0.771
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Political economy
macroeconomics
development
finance and banking
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69
27
0.391
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Development Economics. Local economic development
entrepreneurship
good governance
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
66
0.971
Rangan Gupta
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
658
519
0.789
Nicholas M Odhiambo
University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
226
208
0.920
Ian Sanne
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
217
153
0.705
Infectious Diseases
HIV
Tuberculosis
Health Economics
Haroon Bhorat
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
157
87
0.554
Labour Economics
Poverty and Income Distribution
Murray Leibbrandt
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
154
100
0.649
Poverty
Inequality
Social Mobility
J Paul Dunne
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
135
78
0.578
Economics
political science
development
Don Ross
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
107
58
0.542
Economic Methodology
Game Theory
Philosophy of Science
Experimental Economics
Addiction
Hana Ross
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
97
72
0.742
Julian May
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
97
49
0.505
development economics poverty land
Dorrit Posel|D.R.Posel, Dori Posel
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96
69
0.719
Economic demography
Gender
Labour economics
Well-being
Ingrid Woolard
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96
54
0.563
Poverty
inequality
unemployment
social assistance
impact evaluation
Paul Bowen
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
89
57
0.640
Construction_industry
HIV_AIDS
Workplace_stress and construction management
HIV/AIDS and prevention
Workplace stress work-fa
Roula Inglesi-Lotz
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
79
0.929
Energy economics and policy
environmental economics
applied economics
John Ele-Ojo Ataguba
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
69
0.812
Development Economics
Health Economics
Microeconomics
Imhotep P. Alagidede
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84
78
0.929
Applied Financial Econometrics
Public Economics
Development Finance
Emerging Market Economies
Warren Maroun
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83
78
0.940
Corporate governance
auditing
accountability
financial reporting
Gavin George
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82
60
0.732
AS Oyekale
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79
51
0.646
Environmental
Health
& Development Economics
Martine Visser
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
78
58
0.744
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Environmental Economics
Harold Kincaid
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
78
52
0.667
philosophy of social science philosophy of science
experimental economics
causality
Andrea Saayman
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
57
0.770
Economics
Tourism Economics
Applied Econometrics
Forecasting
Simon Roberts
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73
39
0.534
Competition Economics
Industrial Development
Competition Policy
Ashok Chapagain
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
70
54
0.771
Water resources management
Water accounting
Water Footprint
Food
Irrigation
Vishnu Padayachee
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69
27
0.391
Political economy
macroeconomics
development
finance and banking
Daniel Meyer
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
66
0.971
Development Economics. Local economic development
entrepreneurship
good governance