Scholarly Index

African Studies and Ethnography

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for African Studies and Ethnography.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Jean‐Pierre Olivier de Sardan	99.60	3,610	181
2	Achille Mbembé	99.22	13,469	167
3	Filip De Boeck	98.79	2,245	442
4	Jean‐Pierre Chauveau	98.63	1,330	220
5	Peter Geschiere	98.61	5,977	274
6	Thomas Bierschenk	98.55	1,698	92
7	Richard Banégas	98.54	841	116
8	Sten Hagberg	98.47	695	132
9	Jean-François Bayart	98.36	2,048	157
10	Bogumił Jewsiewicki	98.34	1,052	188
11	Jan Jansen	98.29	1,286	139
12	Jean‐Loup Amselle	98.23	927	140
13	Susan J. Rasmussen	98.22	724	97
14	Katrien Pype	98.14	585	148
15	Mathieu Hilgers	98.13	938	87
16	Jean-Pierre Chrétien	97.89	883	217
17	Claude Meillassoux	97.89	3,418	144
18	Jean‐Pierre Dozon	97.85	604	124
19	Sylvie Fainzang	97.84	567	124
20	Thomas J. Bassett	97.81	3,989	175
21	Sylvie Brédeloup	97.79	1,041	93
22	Jan Vansina	97.73	9,116	286
23	Didier Fassin	97.60	6,055	134
24	Jean Copans	97.59	874	236
25	André Mary	97.56	408	235
26	Morten Bøås	97.50	1,828	108
27	Bettina Engels	97.48	530	76
28	Philippe Lavigne Delville	97.39	883	195
29	Didier Fassin	97.30	4,095	203
30	Carola Lentz	97.24	1,481	118
31	Mamadou Diouf	96.98	1,417	78
32	Judith Scheele	96.85	409	54
33	Joseph Tonda	96.75	272	60
34	Ernest Harsch	96.74	530	133
35	René Devisch	96.64	616	133
36	Bruce Whitehouse	96.60	606	48
37	Benjamin Rubbers	96.58	565	125
38	Wyatt MacGaffey	96.50	3,062	222
39	Vincent Foucher	96.38	388	73
40	Julien Bonhomme	96.22	385	100
41	Julien Brachet	96.20	636	56
42	Ferdinand De Jong	96.02	402	88
43	Denise Paulme	95.93	284	87
44	Christian Lund	95.91	8,026	186
45	Laurent Vidal	95.87	813	137
46	Pierre‐Yves Le Meur	95.86	546	102
47	Mirjam de Bruijn	95.85	1,057	102
48	René Lemarchand	95.79	2,890	165
49	Jean-Paul Colleyn	95.74	308	133
50	Mahir Şaul	95.68	710	70