What is a good h-index in Engineering?
Percentiles of the h-index among 1,188,108 ranked researchers in Engineering, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Engineering?
In Engineering, among 1,188,108 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 9. An h-index of 24 is at the 90th percentile and 53 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Engineering sits below the overall median (9 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 9 h-index
- 75thpercentile 15 h-index
- 90thpercentile 24 h-index
- 95thpercentile 32 h-index
- 99thpercentile 53 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 Engineering
Engineering has 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Questions about the h-index in Engineering
- What is a good h-index in Engineering?
- In Engineering, among 1,188,108 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 9. An h-index of 24 is at the 90th percentile and 53 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Engineering sits below the overall median (9 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Engineering?
- The median h-index of 1,188,108 ranked researchers in Engineering is 9 and the mean is 12.3.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Engineering?
- An h-index of 24 is at the 90th percentile in Engineering, and 32 at the 95th.