What is a good h-index in Health Professions?
Percentiles of the h-index among 53,976 ranked researchers in Health Professions, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Health Professions?
In Health Professions, among 53,976 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 7. An h-index of 18 is at the 90th percentile and 43 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Health Professions sits below the overall median (7 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 7 h-index
- 75thpercentile 11 h-index
- 90thpercentile 18 h-index
- 95thpercentile 25 h-index
- 99thpercentile 43 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 Health Professions
Health Professions has 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Manual Therapy | 1,168 | 10 | 27 | 52 |
| Emergency Medical Services | 2,521 | 8 | 20 | 44 |
| General Health Professions | 117,431 | 8 | 23 | 53 |
| Health Information Management | 2,468 | 6 | 18 | 43 |
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 186 | 4 | 11 | 24 |
| Occupational Therapy | 3,375 | 7 | 19 | 42 |
| Pharmacy | 661 | 5 | 13 | 33 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 5,741 | 5 | 18 | 51 |
| Radiological and Ultrasound Technology | 2,845 | 9 | 19 | 38 |
| Speech and Hearing | 2,495 | 7 | 20 | 42 |
More on Health Professions
- Health Professions: leading countries, institutions and researchers
- The most cited researchers in Health Professions
- 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
- Computer Science
- Decision Sciences
- Dentistry
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Science
- 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 Health Professions
- What is a good h-index in Health Professions?
- In Health Professions, among 53,976 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 7. An h-index of 18 is at the 90th percentile and 43 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Health Professions sits below the overall median (7 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Health Professions?
- The median h-index of 53,976 ranked researchers in Health Professions is 7 and the mean is 8.9.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Health Professions?
- An h-index of 18 is at the 90th percentile in Health Professions, and 25 at the 95th.