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
Freshwater Ecology
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
127
120
0.945
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Livestock Science
Animal Nutrition
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88
70
0.795
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83
21
0.253
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Aquatic ecology
e-flows
ecological risk assessments
ichthyology
ecotoxicology.
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34
30
0.882
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Soil Science
Plant nutrition
Agronomy
Composting
Farming System & intercropping
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
28
0.848
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Sharing economy
Accommodation Management
Food and Beverage Operations
Airline Operations
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
29
0.967
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Food provenance
food authenticity
fisheries
wildlife crime
sustainability
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
27
0.964
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Archives and records Management
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18
18
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Monetary theory and policy
Financial Economics
Banking
Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
16
0.941
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Archaeology
Later Stone Age
Interaction
Landscape archaeology
Rock art
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
14
0.824
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Zoology
Conservation biology
Ornithology
Ecology
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
10
0.588
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
10
0.588
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Unemployment and Poverty studies
Macroeconomic issues
Climate Change
Big data analysis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15
11
0.733
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Crop Protection
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15
9
0.600
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
SME Development
Entrepreneurship Education
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Business Models
Business Management
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
14
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Agric. Extension&Communication
Capacity building
Rural livelihoods
Climate Change
Food Security
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
14
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
11
0.846
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Capacity development & Extension
Applied hydrology
Agricultural economics
Climate change
Poverty
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
11
0.846
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Economics
Econometrics
Finance
Banking
Entrepreneurship Development
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
10
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Carnivore ecology
conservation biology
human-wildlife conflict
predator-prey interactions
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
9
0.900
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Symmetry analysis
differential equations
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
9
0.900
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Taxonomy
Flightless Soil Macroinvertebrates
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
3
0.300
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Water treatment
Acid mine drainage
Mining
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
9
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
9
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Ethno-botany
indigenous knowledge systems
medicinal plants
ethnopharmacology
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
9
1.000
Tatenda Dalu
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
127
120
0.945
Freshwater Ecology
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Victor Mlambo
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88
70
0.795
Livestock Science
Animal Nutrition
Ric Bernard
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83
21
0.253
Gordon O'brien
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34
30
0.882
Aquatic ecology
e-flows
ecological risk assessments
ichthyology
ecotoxicology.
Kutu FR
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33
28
0.848
Soil Science
Plant nutrition
Agronomy
Composting
Farming System & intercropping
Oswald Mhlanga
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
29
0.967
Sharing economy
Accommodation Management
Food and Beverage Operations
Airline Operations
Donna Cawthorn
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
27
0.964
Food provenance
food authenticity
fisheries
wildlife crime
sustainability
Sidney Netshakhuma
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18
18
1.000
Archives and records Management
Andrew Maredza
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
16
0.941
Monetary theory and policy
Financial Economics
Banking
Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
Tim Forssman
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
14
0.824
Archaeology
Later Stone Age
Interaction
Landscape archaeology
Rock art
Mduduzi Ndlovu
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
10
0.588
Zoology
Conservation biology
Ornithology
Ecology
Severino Machingambi
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
10
0.588
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Ferdinand Niyimbanira
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15
11
0.733
Unemployment and Poverty studies
Macroeconomic issues
Climate Change
Big data analysis
Zakheleni Dube
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15
9
0.600
Mazanai Musara
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
14
1.000
SME Development
Entrepreneurship Education
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Business Models
Business Management
Oluwasogo David Olorunfemi
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
14
1.000
Agric. Extension&Communication
Capacity building
Rural livelihoods
Climate Change
Food Security
Terence Suinyuy
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
11
0.846
Isaac Azikiwe Agholor (Pr.Sci.Nat)
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
11
0.846
Capacity development & Extension
Applied hydrology
Agricultural economics
Climate change
Poverty
Ebenezer Gbenga Olamide
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
10
1.000
Economics
Econometrics
Finance
Banking
Entrepreneurship Development
Liaan Minnie
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
9
0.900
Carnivore ecology
conservation biology
human-wildlife conflict
predator-prey interactions
Tanki Motsepa
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
9
0.900
Symmetry analysis
differential equations
Tarombera Mwabvu
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10
3
0.300
Taxonomy
Flightless Soil Macroinvertebrates
Ayanda N. Shabalala
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
9
1.000
Rasodi K. Manyaka
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
9
1.000
Peter Tshepiso Ndhlovu
University of Mpumalanga
Mbombela, South Africa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
9
1.000
Ethno-botany
indigenous knowledge systems
medicinal plants
ethnopharmacology