What is a good h-index in Building and Construction?
Percentiles of the h-index among 20,108 ranked researchers in Building and Construction, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Building and Construction?
In Building and Construction, among 20,108 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 8. An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile and 45 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Building and Construction sits below the overall median (8 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 8 h-index
- 75thpercentile 13 h-index
- 90thpercentile 21 h-index
- 95thpercentile 29 h-index
- 99thpercentile 45 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 across Engineering
The median h-index in Engineering is 9. Its subfields, with Building and Construction marked:
| Subfield | Researchers | Median | 90th | 99th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 87,010 | 6 | 16 | 36 |
| Architecture | 1,195 | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| Automotive Engineering | 9,997 | 8 | 18 | 41 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 119,035 | 12 | 30 | 62 |
| Building and Construction | 20,108 | 8 | 21 | 45 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 83,240 | 8 | 22 | 47 |
| Computational Mechanics | 43,434 | 10 | 25 | 52 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 53,963 | 8 | 22 | 50 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 398,464 | 10 | 26 | 56 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering) | 20,908 | 8 | 21 | 46 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 154,246 | 9 | 23 | 48 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 40,002 | 9 | 24 | 51 |
| Media Technology | 4,926 | 7 | 19 | 43 |
| Ocean Engineering | 23,915 | 8 | 19 | 42 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 5,818 | 7 | 20 | 44 |
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- Energy
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- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
- Physics and Astronomy
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- Veterinary
Questions about the h-index in Building and Construction
- What is a good h-index in Building and Construction?
- In Building and Construction, among 20,108 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 8. An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile and 45 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Building and Construction sits below the overall median (8 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Building and Construction?
- The median h-index of 20,108 ranked researchers in Building and Construction is 8 and the mean is 10.7.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Building and Construction?
- An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile in Building and Construction, and 29 at the 95th.