What is a good h-index in Global and Planetary Change?
Percentiles of the h-index among 61,006 ranked researchers in Global and Planetary Change, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Global and Planetary Change?
In Global and Planetary Change, among 61,006 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 11. An h-index of 31 is at the 90th percentile and 70 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Global and Planetary Change 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 70 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 Environmental Science
The median h-index in Environmental Science is 11. Its subfields, with Global and Planetary Change marked:
| 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 Global and Planetary Change
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- The most cited researchers in Global and Planetary Change
- What a good h-index is in every field
H-index by field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
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- Dentistry
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Energy
- Engineering
- 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 Global and Planetary Change
- What is a good h-index in Global and Planetary Change?
- In Global and Planetary Change, among 61,006 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 11. An h-index of 31 is at the 90th percentile and 70 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Global and Planetary Change sits above the overall median (11 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Global and Planetary Change?
- The median h-index of 61,006 ranked researchers in Global and Planetary Change is 11 and the mean is 15.4.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Global and Planetary Change?
- An h-index of 31 is at the 90th percentile in Global and Planetary Change, and 41 at the 95th.