Scholarly Index

African history and culture analysis

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for African history and culture analysis.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	W. F. Albright	99.62	7,977	599
2	Christopher Clapham	99.61	4,290	190
3	E. E. Evans‐Pritchard	99.57	12,563	214
4	Terence Ranger	99.55	5,311	223
5	Jan Vansina	99.51	9,116	286
6	Lucy Mair	99.48	5,744	423
7	Alex de Waal	99.41	6,477	219
8	Douglas H. Johnson	99.37	30,219	652
9	Alí A. Mazrui	99.32	4,673	326
10	David W. Phillipson	99.30	2,417	117
11	I. M. Lewis	99.27	3,750	132
12	Jon Abbink	99.27	2,348	159
13	Richard Pankhurst	99.25	1,875	310
14	David Turton	99.24	2,168	92
15	Peter D. Little	99.21	4,217	108
16	Gail M. Gerhart	99.18	33,659	338
17	Harold G. Marcus	99.13	1,431	101
18	John Arthur	99.01	9,158	186
19	James C. McCann	98.98	5,196	137
20	Melville J. Herskovits	98.98	8,986	250
21	J. D. Y. Peel	98.96	3,297	171
22	Donald Crummey	98.95	1,997	128
23	John O. Voll	98.90	2,295	183
24	Wyatt MacGaffey	98.88	3,062	222
25	Steven E. Kaplan	98.85	5,285	190
26	Lidwien Kapteijns	98.80	3,340	128
27	T. O. Beidelman	98.71	4,432	225
28	Gaim Kibreab	98.70	1,437	61
29	J. Desmond Clark	98.70	6,374	213
30	Jay Spaulding	98.67	2,038	135
31	Joseph Greenberg	98.61	14,085	312
32	J. E. G. Sutton	98.60	1,923	77
33	Ken Menkhaus	98.57	2,480	64
34	Ivor Wilks	98.51	1,352	87
35	Robert O. Collins	98.51	1,321	153
36	Kjetil Tronvoll	98.49	1,237	47
37	Brian M. Fagan	98.44	4,650	300
38	Mark Horton	98.42	3,896	139
39	John G. Galaty	98.41	1,530	93
40	Tobias Hagmann	98.40	2,007	47
41	Thomas Spear	98.39	2,429	102
42	Abdi Ismail Samatar	98.38	1,401	84
43	Timothy Insoll	98.37	1,302	140
44	Justin Willis	98.35	2,165	129
45	John M. Cohen	98.35	1,927	79
46	Wolf Leslau	98.32	1,032	172
47	Norman R. Bennett	98.28	2,604	172
48	Charles W. McClellan	98.25	854	48
49	Robert I. Rotberg	98.24	4,737	244
50	Fekadu Beyene	98.22	1,946	93