What is a good h-index in Physics and Astronomy?
Percentiles of the h-index among 357,574 ranked researchers in Physics and Astronomy, and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Physics and Astronomy?
In Physics and Astronomy, among 357,574 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 13. An h-index of 44 is at the 90th percentile and 104 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Physics and Astronomy sits above the overall median (13 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 13 h-index
- 75thpercentile 24 h-index
- 90thpercentile 44 h-index
- 95thpercentile 60 h-index
- 99thpercentile 104 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 Physics and Astronomy
Physics and Astronomy has 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustics and Ultrasonics | 140 | 9 | 18 | 26 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 91,662 | 11 | 40 | 88 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 95,782 | 11 | 30 | 61 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 18,164 | 12 | 32 | 62 |
| Instrumentation | 600 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 161,893 | 16 | 54 | 122 |
| Radiation | 20,131 | 9 | 22 | 44 |
| Statistical and Nonlinear Physics | 12,724 | 10 | 26 | 57 |
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Questions about the h-index in Physics and Astronomy
- What is a good h-index in Physics and Astronomy?
- In Physics and Astronomy, among 357,574 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 13. An h-index of 44 is at the 90th percentile and 104 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Physics and Astronomy sits above the overall median (13 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Physics and Astronomy?
- The median h-index of 357,574 ranked researchers in Physics and Astronomy is 13 and the mean is 19.7.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Physics and Astronomy?
- An h-index of 44 is at the 90th percentile in Physics and Astronomy, and 60 at the 95th.