Scholarly Index

African studies and sociopolitical issues

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for African studies and sociopolitical issues.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Ian Scoones	99.81	21,831	273
2	Terence Ranger	99.77	5,311	223
3	Michaël Bratton	99.53	9,806	119
4	JoAnn McGregor	99.22	2,374	60
5	Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni	99.13	3,282	105
6	Roger Southall	98.92	3,047	259
7	Deborah Potts	98.89	2,817	92
8	Jocelyn Alexander	98.88	1,762	47
9	Ben Cousins	98.72	3,137	141
10	Luise White	98.57	3,051	102
11	Blair Rutherford	98.52	1,444	60
12	John McCracken	98.49	4,467	213
13	William Beinart	98.47	2,922	109
14	Ian Phimister	98.42	1,620	105
15	Jeremy Seekings	98.36	3,497	188
16	Robert I. Rotberg	98.31	4,737	244
17	Amin Y. Kamete	98.30	1,195	63
18	Elizabeth Schmidt	98.21	1,704	116
19	Sam Moyo	98.20	1,798	61
20	Patrick Bond	98.17	3,253	260
21	Marc Epprecht	97.99	2,229	109
22	Jonathan Crush	97.96	6,070	284
23	Norma Kriger	97.93	1,379	52
24	Gail M. Gerhart	97.86	33,659	338
25	Michael Watts	97.86	17,579	409
26	A. G. Hopkins	97.70	2,827	115
27	Kenneth Good	97.58	1,568	54
28	David Moore	97.57	1,102	113
29	Brian Raftopoulos	97.13	829	46
30	Lloyd Sachikonye	97.10	641	61
31	Keyan G. Tomaselli	97.07	2,831	320
32	Ezra Chitando	97.07	729	80
33	Innocent Chirisa	97.00	1,319	118
34	Simbarashe Gukurume	96.97	691	40
35	Wendy Willems	96.97	858	39
36	Christine Sylvester	96.91	1,283	56
37	Richard Werbner	96.82	1,967	87
38	Jane L. Parpart	96.78	2,408	141
39	Gary Kynoch	96.76	613	40
40	Miles Larmer	96.75	1,134	50
41	Allen Isaacman	96.71	2,494	127
42	Lucy Mair	96.70	5,744	423
43	Jens Andersson	96.61	5,665	100
44	Joost Fontein	96.54	763	71
45	Bill Kinsey	96.51	1,851	52
46	A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene	96.46	2,163	289
47	Carola Lentz	96.44	1,481	118
48	Victor Igreja	96.40	912	48
49	Lionel Cliffe	96.37	1,113	84
50	Alois S. Mlambo	96.26	411	48