Scholarly Index

African history and culture studies

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

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Gail M. Gerhart	99.97	33,659	338
2	Paul E. Lovejoy	99.88	7,172	232
3	Frederick Cooper	99.86	11,096	196
4	Terence Ranger	99.86	5,311	223
5	Jan Vansina	99.81	9,116	286
6	Jennifer Seymour Whitaker	99.69	10,902	325
7	Alí A. Mazrui	99.67	4,673	326
8	Wyatt MacGaffey	99.63	3,062	222
9	Luise White	99.62	3,051	102
10	Richard Rathbone	99.60	3,235	230
11	Toyin Falọla	99.59	3,853	267
12	Lucy Mair	99.54	5,744	423
13	Robert I. Rotberg	99.54	4,737	244
14	John McCracken	99.52	4,467	213
15	Ralph A. Austen	99.51	4,237	240
16	John D. Hargreaves	99.50	2,391	211
17	Philip D. Curtin	99.49	7,346	204
18	John Lonsdale	99.47	3,421	141
19	Jonathan Crush	99.47	6,070	284
20	Patrick Manning	99.46	5,124	249
21	John K. Thornton	99.46	3,219	161
22	William Beinart	99.46	2,922	109
23	Robin Law	99.41	2,231	109
24	Martin A. Klein	99.39	3,004	229
25	JoAnn McGregor	99.38	2,374	60
26	Robert L. Tignor	99.38	5,697	194
27	A. G. Hopkins	99.37	2,827	115
28	Norman R. Bennett	99.36	2,604	172
29	Joseph C. Miller	99.33	4,546	208
30	Jocelyn Alexander	99.33	1,762	47
31	Sara Berry	99.33	4,575	96
32	David Killingray	99.31	1,434	157
33	A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene	99.29	2,163	289
34	Jane I. Guyer	99.29	5,642	188
35	Allen Isaacman	99.27	2,494	127
36	Achille Mbembé	99.26	13,469	167
37	Colin Newbury	99.25	2,134	188
38	Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni	99.20	3,282	105
39	Peter Geschiere	99.19	5,977	274
40	Catherine Coquery‐Vidrovitch	99.17	1,508	348
41	Francis B. Nyamnjoh	99.15	3,984	115
42	Carola Lentz	99.10	1,481	118
43	Jane L. Parpart	99.08	2,408	141
44	Jean Allman	99.06	1,719	64
45	Keyan G. Tomaselli	99.03	2,831	320
46	Okwui Enwezor	99.01	1,499	57
47	Justin Willis	98.98	2,165	129
48	Bill Freund	98.97	3,043	193
49	Ian Scoones	98.97	21,831	273
50	Ian Phimister	98.95	1,620	105