What is a good h-index in Mathematics?
Percentiles of the h-index among 69,702 ranked researchers in Mathematics, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Mathematics?
In Mathematics, among 69,702 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 8. An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile and 44 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Mathematics sits below the overall median (8 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 8 h-index
- 75thpercentile 13 h-index
- 90thpercentile 21 h-index
- 95thpercentile 27 h-index
- 99thpercentile 44 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 Mathematics
Mathematics 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra and Number Theory | 4,730 | 7 | 17 | 34 |
| Applied Mathematics | 17,146 | 8 | 21 | 42 |
| Computational Mathematics | 110 | 9 | 18 | 36 |
| Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics | 2,020 | 7 | 18 | 37 |
| Geometry and Topology | 13,620 | 7 | 19 | 38 |
| Mathematical Physics | 10,944 | 8 | 21 | 42 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 2,336 | 10 | 26 | 61 |
| Numerical Analysis | 3,595 | 8 | 22 | 47 |
| Statistics and Probability | 14,819 | 10 | 30 | 67 |
| Theoretical Computer Science | 768 | 5 | 14 | 38 |
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Questions about the h-index in Mathematics
- What is a good h-index in Mathematics?
- In Mathematics, among 69,702 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 8. An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile and 44 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Mathematics sits below the overall median (8 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Mathematics?
- The median h-index of 69,702 ranked researchers in Mathematics is 8 and the mean is 10.5.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Mathematics?
- An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile in Mathematics, and 27 at the 95th.