ScholarGPS, annually analyses research activities and outputs of over 30 million academics from more than 24 000 academic institutions in more than 200 countries.
Various data science techniques are applied to its database of over 200 million publications and 3 billion citations to rank these researchers and academic institutions.
This annual ranking is based on the most productive (number of publications), 2) the impact of the publications (number of citations) and 3) the utmost quality (h-index).
Based on this analysis, the 150 publications authored or co-authored by Prof Von Solms in Information Security and Security Management over his career, has attracted 6 345 citations to date with a current h-index of 38, that has ranked him in the #1 position in these areas.
His accomplishment has also assisted Nelson Mandela University to be ranked as the fourth most prolific institution internationally in these specialist areas.