i10 Productivity
Rankings
Law i10 Productivity Rankings in South Africa - 2025
Track ongoing research productivity with the 2025 i10 Index Productivity Rankings.
By counting the number of publications with at least 10 citations, the i10 index highlights steady scholarly output and publishing consistency. These rankings offer insight into researchers’ contribution frequency, beyond cumulative impact. The system is regularly refreshed to reflect current performance trends, enabling up-to-date comparisons across fields, institutions, and regions. Premium access includes productivity heatmaps, time-based output trends, and in-depth author benchmarks.
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Criminology
Regulation
Climate Change
Cybersecurity
Policin
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
170
90
0.529
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* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
General Relativity
Dark Energy
Modified theories of gravity
Cosmology
Integrabilit
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
151
142
0.940
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Systems analysi
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
90
40
0.444
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Environmental law
environmental rights
environmental constitutionalism
Anthropocene
earth syste
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80
64
0.800
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Bioethic
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
63
0.851
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
comparative law
comparative constitutional law
legal history
media law
international la
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
33
0.446
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Salmonella
tuberculosis
campylobacter
Lawsoni
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
70
50
0.714
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
criminolgy
urban studies
ethnography
urban safety
security governanc
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64
31
0.484
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Chldren's rights
family law
human rights
equalit
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55
16
0.291
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Refugee and Immigration La
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53
46
0.868
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* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
International Human Rights Law
Regional Human Rights System
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50
24
0.480
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
health
disability
race
culture. sexualitie
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48
13
0.271
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Constitutional law
International Human Rights Law
Social Rights
Equalit
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46
21
0.457
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
law and social change
courts and the poor
socio-economic rights including land
gender-based harm on campu
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
24
0.533
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
federalism
multilevel government
local governmen
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
24
0.545
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Law. health research
HIVm childre
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
19
0.432
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
International children's rights
restorative justic
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
17
0.395
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
rights & regulation
competition policy
legal profession
migration & citizenship
South & Southern Afric
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
16
0.381
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Constitutional Law
human right
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38
12
0.316
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Human rights law
Constitutional la
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
18
0.581
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Urban law and governance
socio-economic rights
constitutional law
law and urban space
right to healt
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
15
0.484
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Local Government
Decentralisation
Federalism
intergovernmental relations
development plannin
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
17
0.567
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Human Rights
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
International La
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
19
0.655
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Legal pluralism
cultural diversity
law of succession
mixed jurisdictions
comparative judicialis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
13
0.448
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Medical Law
Bioethics
Human Rights
Neuropathology
Public Healt
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
14
0.500
Clifford Shearing
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
170
90
0.529
Criminology
Regulation
Climate Change
Cybersecurity
Policin
Andronikos Paliathanasis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
151
142
0.940
General Relativity
Dark Energy
Modified theories of gravity
Cosmology
Integrabilit
Mary Scholes
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
90
40
0.444
Louis J. Kotzé
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80
64
0.800
Environmental law
environmental rights
environmental constitutionalism
Anthropocene
earth syste
Keymanthri Moodley
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
63
0.851
Charles Manga Fombad
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74
33
0.446
comparative law
comparative constitutional law
legal history
media law
international la
Ml Van Der Walt Swanepoel
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
70
50
0.714
Salmonella
tuberculosis
campylobacter
Lawsoni
Monique Michal Marks
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64
31
0.484
criminolgy
urban studies
ethnography
urban safety
security governanc
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55
16
0.291
Chldren's rights
family law
human rights
equalit
Fatima Khan
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53
46
0.868
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Frans Viljoen
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50
24
0.480
International Human Rights Law
Regional Human Rights System
Charles Ngwena
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48
13
0.271
health
disability
race
culture. sexualitie
Sandra Liebenberg
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46
21
0.457
Constitutional law
International Human Rights Law
Social Rights
Equalit
Jackie Dugard
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
24
0.533
law and social change
courts and the poor
socio-economic rights including land
gender-based harm on campu
Nicolaas Steytler
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
24
0.545
federalism
multilevel government
local governmen
Ann Strode
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
19
0.432
Ann Skelton
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
17
0.395
International children's rights
restorative justic
Jonathan Klaaren
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
16
0.381
rights & regulation
competition policy
legal profession
migration & citizenship
South & Southern Afric
Catherine Albertyn
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38
12
0.316
John Mubangizi
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
18
0.581
Marius Pieterse
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
15
0.484
Urban law and governance
socio-economic rights
constitutional law
law and urban space
right to healt
Jaap De Visser
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
17
0.567
Local Government
Decentralisation
Federalism
intergovernmental relations
development plannin
Danwood Chirwa
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
19
0.655
Human Rights
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
International La
Christa Rautenbach
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
13
0.448
Legal pluralism
cultural diversity
law of succession
mixed jurisdictions
comparative judicialis
Sylvester Chima|Sylvester C Chima, MD, Chima S C
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
14
0.500
Medical Law
Bioethics
Human Rights
Neuropathology
Public Healt