NRF-Rated-Researchers NRF Rated Researchers

UJ Rated Researchers 9 July 2018

Please note this list could have been updated on the NRF website and maybe outdated on this page.

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A - Leading international researcher 
Researchers who are unequivocally recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their field for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs.

B - Internationally acclaimed researcher 
Researchers who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality of their recent research outputs.

C - Established researcher 
Established researchers with a sustained recent record of productivity in the field who are recognised by their peers as having produced a body of quality work, the core of which has coherence and attests to ongoing engagement with the field as having demonstrated the ability to conceptualise problems and apply research methods to investigating them.

P - NRF Prestigious Awardee

Young researchers (younger than 35years of age), who have held the doctorate or equivalent qualification for less than five years at the time of application and who, on the basis of exceptional potential demonstrated in their published doctoral work and/or their research outputs in their early post-doctoral careers are considered likely to become future international leaders in their field.

Y - Promising young researcher

Young researchers (below 40 years of age), who have held the doctorate or equivalent qualification for less than five years at the time of application, and who are recognised as having the potential to establish themselves as researchers within a five-year period after evaluation, based on their performance and productivity as researchers during their doctoral studies and/or early post-doctoral careers.​​