What is a good h-index in Environmental Science?
Percentiles of the h-index among 322,147 ranked researchers in Environmental Science, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Environmental Science?
In Environmental Science, among 322,147 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 11. An h-index of 31 is at the 90th percentile and 65 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Environmental Science sits above the overall median (11 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 11 h-index
- 75thpercentile 19 h-index
- 90thpercentile 31 h-index
- 95thpercentile 41 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 Environmental Science
Environmental Science has 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecological Modeling | 757 | 10 | 27 | 58 |
| Ecology | 74,556 | 12 | 31 | 63 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 8,958 | 13 | 34 | 65 |
| Environmental Engineering | 18,128 | 10 | 28 | 60 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 61,006 | 11 | 31 | 70 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 40,495 | 13 | 35 | 71 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Environmental Science) | 7,531 | 9 | 23 | 49 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 17,399 | 5 | 14 | 34 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 18,416 | 11 | 29 | 63 |
| Pollution | 16,943 | 13 | 33 | 66 |
| Water Science and Technology | 31,203 | 10 | 27 | 61 |
More on Environmental Science
- Environmental Science: leading countries, institutions and researchers
- The most cited researchers in Environmental Science
- What a good h-index is in every field
H-index by field
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- Arts and Humanities
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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- Chemical Engineering
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- Dentistry
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Energy
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- 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 Environmental Science
- What is a good h-index in Environmental Science?
- In Environmental Science, among 322,147 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 11. An h-index of 31 is at the 90th percentile and 65 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Environmental Science sits above the overall median (11 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Environmental Science?
- The median h-index of 322,147 ranked researchers in Environmental Science is 11 and the mean is 15.2.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Environmental Science?
- An h-index of 31 is at the 90th percentile in Environmental Science, and 41 at the 95th.