Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) 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).
6
researchers on the list
35
rank in South Africa
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell, Stephen M. | Public Health | 1,301 / 82,273 | 1,220 / 82,273 |
| Motaung, Tshwafo Elias | Polymers | — | 1,755 / 133,253 |
| Witika, Bwalya Angel | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 1,375 / 166,116 |
| Meyer, Johanna C. | General & Internal Medicine | — | 3,738 / 360,081 |
| Govender, Indiran P. | General & Internal Medicine | — | 3,787 / 360,081 |
| Mokwena, Kebogile Elizabeth | General & Internal Medicine | — | 5,273 / 360,081 |
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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