What is a good h-index in Agricultural and Biological Sciences?
Percentiles of the h-index among 436,775 ranked researchers in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Agricultural and Biological Sciences?
In Agricultural and Biological Sciences, among 436,775 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 9. An h-index of 25 is at the 90th percentile and 52 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Agricultural and Biological Sciences sits below the overall median (9 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 9 h-index
- 75thpercentile 15 h-index
- 90thpercentile 25 h-index
- 95thpercentile 33 h-index
- 99thpercentile 52 h-index
Check an h-index
Every figure is the h-index OpenAlex holds for the researcher (author snapshot of 2026-09-23), compared with the 7,710,434 researchers Science Explorer ranks. Each is counted once in a field and once in a subfield, where they have the most papers. Career length is not recorded, and an h-index grows with years of publishing. Which h-index, and who is compared.
H-index in the subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 11 subfields with enough ranked researchers to compare. Each researcher is counted in the subfield where they have the most papers.
| Subfield | Researchers | Median | 90th | 99th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 23,324 | 9 | 24 | 48 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 25,306 | 9 | 24 | 47 |
| Aquatic Science | 13,597 | 9 | 23 | 50 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 34,829 | 9 | 27 | 58 |
| Food Science | 49,956 | 9 | 26 | 54 |
| Forestry | 3,494 | 5 | 12 | 27 |
| General Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15,925 | 5 | 13 | 34 |
| Horticulture | 216 | 8 | 18 | 37 |
| Insect Science | 22,148 | 11 | 26 | 52 |
| Plant Science | 251,499 | 10 | 25 | 53 |
| Soil Science | 16,420 | 9 | 28 | 61 |
More on Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences: leading countries, institutions and researchers
- The most cited researchers in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- What a good h-index is in every field
H-index by field
- Arts and Humanities
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Decision Sciences
- Dentistry
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Health Professions
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Nursing
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
- Physics and Astronomy
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Veterinary
Questions about the h-index in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- What is a good h-index in Agricultural and Biological Sciences?
- In Agricultural and Biological Sciences, among 436,775 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 9. An h-index of 25 is at the 90th percentile and 52 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Agricultural and Biological Sciences sits below the overall median (9 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Agricultural and Biological Sciences?
- The median h-index of 436,775 ranked researchers in Agricultural and Biological Sciences is 9 and the mean is 12.1.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Agricultural and Biological Sciences?
- An h-index of 25 is at the 90th percentile in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and 33 at the 95th.