GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - ScholarGPS, the world's most comprehensive and dynamic scholarly site, has ranked local Emeritus Professor Rossouw von Solms of Nelson Mandela University, as #1 scholar in the field of information security over his career and lifetime.
Von Solms is a contributing author to Mossel Bay Advertiser and George Herald and has written numerous articles for the Group Editors publications.
ScholarGPS applies various data science techniques to its massive database of over 200 million publications and three billion citations to rank over 30 million scholars and 55 000 institutions worldwide, Von Solms says.
Highly ranked scholars, the top 0,05% in particular fields, disciplines and specialties, are the most productive (number of publications) authors, whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index).
Von Solms, who lives in Klein Brak River, authored and co-authored 149 publications in the specialist area of information security over his career, that has attracted 5 988 citations to date with a current h-index of 38.
Based on this analysis, Von Solms has been placed in the #1 position in the field of information security over his career to date.
“It is wonderful to experience that the research that you have conducted and published over a lifetime, is still relevant and being used by fellow researchers all over the world,” Von Solms says.
His accomplishment has also assisted Nelson Mandela University to be ranked as the third most prolific institution internationally in the field of information security.
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