Scholarly Index

African Studies and Ethnography

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for African Studies and Ethnography.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Bruce Whitehouse	94.07	606	48
2	Philippe Lavigne Delville	93.35	883	195
3	Camille Cassarini	92.69	47	15
4	Souleymane Diallo	92.21	478	79
5	Bettina Engels	91.39	530	76
6	Abdoul Karim Saidou	90.70	46	15
7	Jean Biwolé Fouda	89.62	46	15
8	Sebastian van Baalen	88.02	355	24
9	Adib Bencherif	87.79	111	28
10	Zakaria Soré	85.36	21	11
11	Georges Macaire Eyenga	84.86	39	14
12	Marie Fierens	81.97	54	43
13	Dirk Kohnert	80.29	821	424
14	Louis Champion	79.83	543	32
15	Marc-Alexandre Tareau	79.75	228	36
16	Stéphane Vibert	78.64	145	60
17	Emmanuel Pannier	76.99	51	25
18	Dorian Q. Fuller	75.24	27,469	283
19	Marie Deridder	75.03	44	33
20	Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon	74.50	18	8
21	Thibaut Besozzi	72.97	48	46
22	Elara Bertho	71.97	31	107
23	Pierre Failler	71.92	9,639	288
24	Dominique Chevé	71.04	350	52
25	Sylvie Ayimpam	70.75	106	82
26	Laurence Tibère	70.62	750	56
27	Nicolas Hubert	70.38	63	11
28	Hélène Quashie	70.23	109	49
29	Catherine Baron	69.41	273	43
30	Cheikh Tidiane Wane	69.18	52	13
31	Anne Fournier	68.95	596	85
32	Philippe M. Frowd	68.43	838	27
33	Augustin F. C. Holl	68.17	816	58
34	Veronica Mitroï	68.06	211	29
35	Dorothea E. Schulz	67.69	678	44
36	Marième N’Diaye	67.54	66	58
37	Tanguy Quidelleur	67.52	4	4
38	Catherine Coquery‐Vidrovitch	67.17	1,508	348
39	Fatima Guiet Mati	67.13	22	8
40	Tangui Przybylowski	67.08	2	3
41	Jean‐Pierre Olivier de Sardan	67.02	3,610	181
42	Jean-Paul Colleyn	66.56	308	133
43	Aïssatou Mbodj‐Pouye	66.10	213	70
44	Sébastien Boulay	65.45	102	50
45	Boubacar Haidara	65.39	10	15
46	Vincent Foucher	65.34	388	73
47	Kampadilemba Ouoba	65.25	231	91
48	Maëline Le Lay	64.97	33	113
49	Théoxane Camara	64.96	5	16
50	Giovanni Zanoletti	64.86	11	7