The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 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).
9
researchers on the list
29
rank in South Africa
4,872
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John, Maya Jacob | Polymers | 670 / 133,253 | 211 / 133,253 |
| Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan M. | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,801 / 228,312 | 969 / 228,312 |
| Vogel, John C. | Paleontology | 471 / 23,292 | — |
| Sudhakar, Muniyasamy | Polymers | — | 1,805 / 133,253 |
| van den Bergh, Frans | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 1,138 / 82,760 | — |
| Machaka, Ronald | Materials | — | 6,249 / 330,896 |
| Strelow, Franz W.E. | Analytical Chemistry | 2,880 / 137,328 | — |
| Eriksson, Andrew J. | Energy | 7,836 / 371,959 | — |
| Land, Kevin | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,413 / 140,272 |
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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