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Researcher · Nelson Mandela University · South Africa

Rossouw von Solms

Rossouw von Solms publishes mostly in Information Systems, Management Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Information and Cyber Security, Information Technology Governance and Strategy and Network Security and Intrusion Detection.

ORCID 0000-0002-9860-2346 OpenAlex
World rank
#72,216
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#180
of 29,826
Works
208
Citations
7.5k
Citations per work
36.0
h-index
42
i10-index 89Top 0.4% in Information Systems
Rossouw von Solms

What does Rossouw von Solms research?

Rossouw von Solms's work is mostly in Computer Science (52%), Business, Management and Accounting (15%), Social Sciences (12%).

Physical Sciences: 109 works · 52.2% of their workComputer Science: 109 works · 52.2% of their workInformation Systems: 87 works · 41.8% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 13 works · 6.1% of their workSignal Processing: 9 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 56 works · 26.7% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 31 works · 15.0% of their workManagement Information Systems: 31 works · 15.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 11.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 17 works · 8.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 44 works · 21.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRossouw von Solms208works
Physical Sciences52%Social Sciences27%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science10952.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting3115.0%
    2. Social Sciences2411.7%
  3. Everything else4421.1%
  1. 1Information Systems42% of their works
  2. 2Management Information Systems15% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications6% of their works
  5. 5Signal Processing4% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rossouw von Solms's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Policy Compliance, IoT Security, Machine Learning, Business Strategy, IT Alignment and Cybercrime.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Cybersecurity1352 topics
  2. Information Security1131 topic
  3. Policy Compliance1131 topic
  4. IoT Security372 topics
  5. Machine Learning372 topics
  6. Business Strategy331 topic
  7. IT Alignment331 topic
  8. Cybercrime221 topic
  9. Dark Web221 topic
  10. Intrusion Detection221 topic
  11. Network Security221 topic
  12. Android Malware151 topic
  13. Detection151 topic
  14. Agile Software Development141 topic
  15. Empirical Studies141 topic
  16. Online Social Networks121 topic
  17. Privacy Concerns121 topic
  18. Analytics111 topic
  19. Big Data111 topic

Where does Rossouw von Solms work?

Rossouw von Solms's main affiliation in the publication record is Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Rossouw von Solms have?

OpenAlex counts 208 works and 7,486 citations for Rossouw von Solms, an h-index of 42, ranking #72,216 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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