What is a good h-index in Arts and Humanities?
Percentiles of the h-index among 196,295 ranked researchers in Arts and Humanities, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Arts and Humanities?
In Arts and Humanities, among 196,295 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 4. An h-index of 11 is at the 90th percentile and 28 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Arts and Humanities sits below the overall median (4 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 4 h-index
- 75thpercentile 6 h-index
- 90thpercentile 11 h-index
- 95thpercentile 16 h-index
- 99thpercentile 28 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 Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanities has 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archeology (Arts and Humanities) | 35,270 | 5 | 14 | 32 |
| Classics | 4,084 | 4 | 10 | 22 |
| Conservation | 2,436 | 3 | 9 | 22 |
| General Arts and Humanities | 857 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| History | 28,040 | 3 | 10 | 23 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 5,406 | 5 | 17 | 37 |
| Language and Linguistics | 29,567 | 4 | 14 | 35 |
| Literature and Literary Theory | 48,535 | 3 | 9 | 22 |
| Museology | 3,323 | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| Music | 7,930 | 4 | 11 | 26 |
| Philosophy | 19,556 | 4 | 14 | 34 |
| Religious studies | 8,901 | 3 | 10 | 24 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 9,031 | 3 | 9 | 21 |
More on Arts and Humanities
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- What a good h-index is in every field
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Questions about the h-index in Arts and Humanities
- What is a good h-index in Arts and Humanities?
- In Arts and Humanities, among 196,295 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 4. An h-index of 11 is at the 90th percentile and 28 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Arts and Humanities sits below the overall median (4 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Arts and Humanities?
- The median h-index of 196,295 ranked researchers in Arts and Humanities is 4 and the mean is 5.2.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Arts and Humanities?
- An h-index of 11 is at the 90th percentile in Arts and Humanities, and 16 at the 95th.