South African Medical Research Council 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).
29
researchers on the list
16
rank in South Africa
1,953
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewkes, R. K. | Public Health | 43 / 82,273 | 46 / 82,273 |
| Kengne, A. P. | General & Internal Medicine | 404 / 360,081 | 160 / 360,081 |
| Wiysonge, Charles Shey | General & Internal Medicine | 1,015 / 360,081 | 337 / 360,081 |
| Shephard, Gordon Seymour | Food Science | 136 / 107,913 | 1,392 / 107,913 |
| Parry, Charles D.H. | Substance Abuse | 108 / 18,209 | 75 / 18,209 |
| Zühlke, Liesl Joanna | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 4,487 / 249,410 | 1,343 / 249,410 |
| Cerf, Marlon E. | Endocrinology & Metabolism | — | 839 / 100,693 |
| Peer, Nasheeta | General & Internal Medicine | 2,402 / 360,081 | 959 / 360,081 |
| Gray, Glenda E. | Virology | 642 / 79,508 | 515 / 79,508 |
| Ntusi, Ntobeko A.B. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | — | 2,561 / 249,410 |
| Wright, Caradee Yael | Toxicology | — | 383 / 69,049 |
| Cooper, Sara | General & Internal Medicine | 3,813 / 360,081 | 1,680 / 360,081 |
| Siegfried, Nandi Louise | General & Internal Medicine | 1,810 / 360,081 | 3,800 / 360,081 |
| Ndwandwe, Duduzile Edith | General & Internal Medicine | — | 2,180 / 360,081 |
| Faber, Mieke M. | Nutrition & Dietetics | 1,111 / 59,506 | — |
| Iwu, Chinwe Juliana | General & Internal Medicine | — | 2,213 / 360,081 |
| Thiel, Pieter G. | Food Science | 1,112 / 107,913 | — |
| Modjadji, Sewela Elizabeth Perpetua | Toxicology | — | 705 / 69,049 |
| Bradshaw, Debbie | General & Internal Medicine | 2,487 / 360,081 | 5,716 / 360,081 |
| Street, Renée Anne | Environmental Sciences | 2,591 / 140,934 | — |
| Kredo, Tamara J. | General & Internal Medicine | — | 3,703 / 360,081 |
| Doherty, Tanya M. | General & Internal Medicine | 4,608 / 360,081 | 5,475 / 360,081 |
| Lombard, Carl J. | General & Internal Medicine | 4,616 / 360,081 | 7,183 / 360,081 |
| Engel, Mark E. | General & Internal Medicine | — | 5,148 / 360,081 |
| Jackson, Terry F.H.G. | General & Internal Medicine | 6,025 / 360,081 | — |
| van Rensburg, Schalk J. | General & Internal Medicine | 6,216 / 360,081 | — |
| Goga, Ameena Ebrahim | General & Internal Medicine | 6,346 / 360,081 | 5,889 / 360,081 |
| Jaca, Anelisa | General & Internal Medicine | — | 7,036 / 360,081 |
| Durão, Solange | General & Internal Medicine | — | 7,121 / 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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