Tshwane University of Technology 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).
11
researchers on the list
26
rank in South Africa
4,213
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sadiku, Emmanuel Rotimi | Polymers | 1,768 / 133,253 | 360 / 133,253 |
| Viljoen, Alvaro M. | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 607 / 120,621 | 186 / 120,621 |
| Dakora, Felix Dapare | Plant Biology & Botany | 764 / 204,373 | 1,199 / 204,373 |
| Popoola, Abimbola Patricia Idowu | Materials | 2,362 / 330,896 | 1,694 / 330,896 |
| Wolkersdorfer, Christian | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,724 / 108,013 |
| Popoola, Olawale Muhammed | Energy | 5,949 / 371,959 | 4,277 / 371,959 |
| Kamatou, Guy Paulin P. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,021 / 204,373 |
| Onyango, Maurice Stephen | Chemical Engineering | 1,787 / 97,821 | — |
| Du, Chunling | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,577 / 131,085 | — |
| Vermaak, Ilze | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 2,237 / 120,621 |
| Chen, Weiyang | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 2,564 / 120,621 |
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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