Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 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).
17
researchers on the list
20
rank in South Africa
3,014
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seedat, Soraya | Psychiatry | 428 / 90,846 | 161 / 90,846 |
| Donald, Peter Roderick | Microbiology | 577 / 232,186 | 1,874 / 232,186 |
| Van Helden, Paul D. | Microbiology | 1,297 / 232,186 | 4,141 / 232,186 |
| Grimmer, Karen Anne | Rehabilitation | 88 / 31,889 | 261 / 31,889 |
| Volmink, Jimmy A. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,009 / 360,081 | 1,342 / 360,081 |
| Moore, Samuel W. | Pediatrics | 446 / 81,129 | 1,247 / 81,129 |
| Warren, Robin Mark | Microbiology | 2,971 / 232,186 | 3,410 / 232,186 |
| Menkveld, Roelof | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | 1,251 / 105,735 | 2,178 / 105,735 |
| Louw, Quinette Abegail | Rehabilitation | — | 375 / 31,889 |
| Smith, Carine | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 2,782 / 166,116 | 1,396 / 166,116 |
| Walzl, Gerhard | Microbiology | 4,525 / 232,186 | 3,814 / 232,186 |
| Dramowski, Angela | Microbiology | — | 3,804 / 232,186 |
| Bornman, Juan | Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology | — | 268 / 13,500 |
| Erasmus, Rajiv Timothy | General & Internal Medicine | 3,106 / 360,081 | 3,068 / 360,081 |
| Couper, Ian D. | General & Internal Medicine | 4,531 / 360,081 | 7,238 / 360,081 |
| Tamuzi, Jacques Lukenze Jl | General & Internal Medicine | — | 4,965 / 360,081 |
| Rohwer, Anke C. | General & Internal Medicine | — | 7,076 / 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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