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Researcher · University of Pretoria · South Africa

Leon Pretorius

Leon Pretorius publishes mostly in Management Science and Operations Research, Management Information Systems and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Construction Project Management and Performance, Complex Systems and Decision Making and Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0002-2842-3596 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,159,503
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,955
of 5,570
Works
61
Citations
48
Citations per work
0.8

What does Leon Pretorius research?

Management Science and Operations Research: 32.7%Management Information Systems: 11.2%Strategy and Management: 9.2%Control and Systems Engineering: 4.1%other fields: 42.8%33%top field
Management Science and Operations Research32.7%Management Information Systems11.2%Strategy and Management9.2%Control and Systems Engineering4.1%other fields42.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Management Science and Operations Research33% of their works
  2. 2Management Information Systems11% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management9% of their works
  4. 4Control and Systems Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leon Pretorius's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Supply Chain Management, Construction Projects, Project Success, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics, Agent-Based Modeling, Complex Adaptive Systems and Innovation Diffusion.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Supply Chain Management203 topics
  2. Construction Projects131 topic
  3. Project Success131 topic
  4. Soft Systems Methodology111 topic
  5. System Dynamics111 topic
  6. Agent-Based Modeling41 topic
  7. Complex Adaptive Systems41 topic
  8. Innovation Diffusion41 topic
  9. Model-Based Systems Engineering41 topic
  10. Offshoring41 topic
  11. Outsourcing41 topic
  12. Lean Manufacturing31 topic
  13. Performance Measurement31 topic
  14. Complexity Theory21 topic
  15. Emergence21 topic
  16. Functional–Structural Plant Modelling21 topic
  17. Plant Architecture21 topic

Where does Leon Pretorius work?

Leon Pretorius's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pretoria, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Leon Pretorius have?

Science Explorer counts 61 works and 48 citations for Leon Pretorius, ranking #1,159,503 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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