What is a good h-index in Dentistry?
Percentiles of the h-index among 30,150 ranked researchers in Dentistry, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Dentistry?
In Dentistry, among 30,150 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 9. An h-index of 25 is at the 90th percentile and 55 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Dentistry 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 55 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 Dentistry
Dentistry has 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Dentistry | 166 | 5 | 11 | 18 |
| Oral Surgery | 20,256 | 8 | 22 | 48 |
| Orthodontics | 10,744 | 9 | 25 | 56 |
| Periodontics | 12,112 | 10 | 27 | 58 |
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Questions about the h-index in Dentistry
- What is a good h-index in Dentistry?
- In Dentistry, among 30,150 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 9. An h-index of 25 is at the 90th percentile and 55 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Dentistry sits below the overall median (9 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Dentistry?
- The median h-index of 30,150 ranked researchers in Dentistry is 9 and the mean is 12.2.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Dentistry?
- An h-index of 25 is at the 90th percentile in Dentistry, and 33 at the 95th.