i10 Productivity
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Law / Law and Legal Studies 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
Criminology
policing
environmental security
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
150
92
0.613
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
General Relativity
Dark Energy
Modified theories of gravity
Cosmology
Integrability
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
140
135
0.964
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Systems analysis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
38
0.447
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Bioethics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67
57
0.851
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Salmonella
tuberculosis
campylobacter
Lawsonia
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64
50
0.781
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
criminolgy
urban studies
ethnography
urban safety
security governance
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60
33
0.550
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Chldren's rights
family law
human rights
equality
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57
16
0.281
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
International Human Rights Law
Regional Human Rights Systems
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48
23
0.479
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
federalism
multilevel government
local government
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
22
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
health
disability
race
culture. sexualities
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
16
0.364
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
law and social change
courts and the poor
socio-economic rights including land
gender-based harm on campus
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
26
0.619
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Law. health research
HIVm children
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
18
0.429
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
rights & regulation
competition policy
legal profession
migration & citizenship
South & Southern Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
16
0.400
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
International children's rights
restorative justice
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39
15
0.385
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Local Government
Decentralisation
Federalism
intergovernmental relations
development planning
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
15
0.577
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Medical Law
Bioethics
Human Rights
Neuropathology
Public Health
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
14
0.538
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Legal pluralism
cultural diversity
law of succession
mixed jurisdictions
comparative judicialism
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
14
0.538
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
gender
family law
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
8
0.308
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
10
0.417
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Cities
Urban Law & Governance
Sustainability
Climate Change Law & Governance
Sub-Saharan Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23
16
0.696
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
criminal justice
police
policing
identity
South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22
13
0.591
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Criminology
Theory
Methodology
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22
7
0.318
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Refugee and Immigration Law
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21
18
0.857
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Medical law
ethics
law and literature
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21
13
0.619
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Law
Politics
Democracy
Human Rights
Constitutionalism
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20
4
0.200
Clifford Shearing
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
150
92
0.613
Criminology
policing
environmental security
Andronikos Paliathanasis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
140
135
0.964
General Relativity
Dark Energy
Modified theories of gravity
Cosmology
Integrability
Mary Scholes
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85
38
0.447
Keymanthri Moodley
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67
57
0.851
Ml Van Der Walt Swanepoel
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64
50
0.781
Salmonella
tuberculosis
campylobacter
Lawsonia
Monique Michal Marks
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60
33
0.550
criminolgy
urban studies
ethnography
urban safety
security governance
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57
16
0.281
Chldren's rights
family law
human rights
equality
Frans Viljoen
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48
23
0.479
International Human Rights Law
Regional Human Rights Systems
Nicolaas Steytler
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
22
0.500
federalism
multilevel government
local government
Charles Ngwena
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44
16
0.364
health
disability
race
culture. sexualities
Jackie Dugard
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
26
0.619
law and social change
courts and the poor
socio-economic rights including land
gender-based harm on campus
Ann Strode
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42
18
0.429
Jonathan Klaaren
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
16
0.400
rights & regulation
competition policy
legal profession
migration & citizenship
South & Southern Africa
Ann Skelton
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39
15
0.385
International children's rights
restorative justice
Jaap De Visser
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
15
0.577
Local Government
Decentralisation
Federalism
intergovernmental relations
development planning
Sylvester Chima|Sylvester C Chima, MD, Chima S C
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
14
0.538
Medical Law
Bioethics
Human Rights
Neuropathology
Public Health
Christa Rautenbach
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
14
0.538
Legal pluralism
cultural diversity
law of succession
mixed jurisdictions
comparative judicialism
Elsje Bonthuys
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26
8
0.308
Lilian Chenwi
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
10
0.417
Anel Du Plessis
North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23
16
0.696
Cities
Urban Law & Governance
Sustainability
Climate Change Law & Governance
Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Faull
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22
13
0.591
criminal justice
police
policing
identity
South Africa
Francois Steyn
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22
7
0.318
Fatima Khan
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21
18
0.857
Melodie Slabbert|Melodie Slabbert, Melodie Nöthling-Slabbert
University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21
13
0.619
Mbata Mangu Andre
University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20
4
0.200
Law
Politics
Democracy
Human Rights
Constitutionalism