What is a good h-index in Earth and Planetary Sciences?
Percentiles of the h-index among 131,217 ranked researchers in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Earth and Planetary Sciences?
In Earth and Planetary Sciences, among 131,217 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 11. An h-index of 32 is at the 90th percentile and 65 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Earth and Planetary Sciences sits above the overall median (11 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 11 h-index
- 75thpercentile 19 h-index
- 90thpercentile 32 h-index
- 95thpercentile 42 h-index
- 99thpercentile 65 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 Earth and Planetary Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 52,243 | 12 | 36 | 73 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 6,740 | 10 | 27 | 53 |
| Geochemistry and Petrology | 3,175 | 10 | 27 | 55 |
| Geology | 4,631 | 6 | 16 | 33 |
| Geophysics | 51,358 | 11 | 30 | 61 |
| Oceanography | 28,774 | 12 | 32 | 62 |
| Paleontology | 10,409 | 12 | 30 | 56 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 139 | 6 | 17 | 39 |
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H-index by field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Decision Sciences
- Dentistry
- 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 Earth and Planetary Sciences
- What is a good h-index in Earth and Planetary Sciences?
- In Earth and Planetary Sciences, among 131,217 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 11. An h-index of 32 is at the 90th percentile and 65 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Earth and Planetary Sciences sits above the overall median (11 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Earth and Planetary Sciences?
- The median h-index of 131,217 ranked researchers in Earth and Planetary Sciences is 11 and the mean is 15.3.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Earth and Planetary Sciences?
- An h-index of 32 is at the 90th percentile in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and 42 at the 95th.