Nelson Mandela University in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
16
researchers on the list
21
rank in South Africa
3,173
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stein, Sharon | Education | 833 / 115,687 | 153 / 115,687 |
| Cowling, Richard Mark | Ecology | 219 / 82,882 | 1,066 / 82,882 |
| de Wit, Maarten J. | Geology | 19 / 17,936 | 52 / 17,936 |
| Smith, Gideon F. | Evolutionary Biology | 551 / 31,128 | 120 / 31,128 |
| Adams, Janine B. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 768 / 54,545 | 170 / 54,545 |
| Ekolu, Stephen O. | Building & Construction | 615 / 56,454 | 388 / 56,454 |
| Kerley, Graham I.H. | Ecology | 958 / 82,882 | — |
| Perissinotto, Renzo | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 751 / 54,545 | — |
| Alven, Sibusiso | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 619 / 166,116 |
| Watts, Paul | Organic Chemistry | 2,034 / 188,664 | — |
| Barnes, Richard S.K. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,019 / 54,545 | — |
| Smale, Malcolme John | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,036 / 54,545 | — |
| McGill, William J. | Polymers | 1,233 / 133,253 | — |
| Dube, Ernest | Agronomy & Agriculture | — | 1,609 / 95,377 |
| Adelman, Sam | Law | — | 295 / 18,707 |
| Meel, Banwarilal | Legal & Forensic Medicine | 140 / 15,674 | — |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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