Research influence · Established
h-index
The largest number h such that h of a researcher’s papers have at least h citations each.
At a glance
ScienceDex researchers with papers in OpenAlex, an open index of published research, as of September 23, 2026. Profiles that mix papers from different people with the same name are left out.
- Researchers
- 50,136
- Median
- 27
- Half are at or below
- Middle half
- 16 to 41
- 25th to 75th percentile
- 90th percentile
- 61
- 9 in 10 are at or below
Researchers by h-index
Each bar counts the researchers in one range. Select a bar to list them below.
Show the numbers
| Range | Researchers | Share of researchers |
|---|---|---|
| 0 to 4 | 976 | 1.9% |
| 5 to 9 | 3,889 | 7.8% |
| 10 to 14 | 5,543 | 11.1% |
| 15 to 19 | 6,164 | 12.3% |
| 20 to 24 | 6,061 | 12.1% |
| 25 to 29 | 5,426 | 10.8% |
| 30 to 34 | 4,628 | 9.2% |
| 35 to 39 | 3,676 | 7.3% |
| 40 to 44 | 2,933 | 5.9% |
| 45 to 49 | 2,247 | 4.5% |
| 50 to 54 | 1,752 | 3.5% |
| 55 to 59 | 1,359 | 2.7% |
| 60 to 64 | 1,080 | 2.2% |
| 65 to 69 | 829 | 1.7% |
| 70 to 74 | 685 | 1.4% |
| 75 to 79 | 524 | 1% |
| 80 to 84 | 451 | 0.9% |
| 85 to 89 | 332 | 0.7% |
| 90 to 94 | 284 | 0.6% |
| 95 to 99 | 231 | 0.5% |
| 100 to 104 | 194 | 0.4% |
| 105 to 109 | 149 | 0.3% |
| 110 to 114 | 119 | 0.2% |
| 115 to 119 | 93 | 0.2% |
| 120 to 124 | 96 | 0.2% |
| 125 or more | 415 | 0.8% |
Explore researchers
Sort order describes this measure; it is not an overall assessment of a researcher.
Showing 2,247 researchers with h-index 45 to 49.Show all researchers
2,247 researchers · Page 1. Table bars compare sizes within this page.
| Researcher | h-index |
|---|---|
| Xiaochuan Pan | 49 |
| Liss, Michael Andre | 49 |
| Joshi James Alumkal | 49 |
| Agapie, Theodor | 49 |
| Scott M. Dehm | 49 |
| Kohli, Manish | 49 |
| Nath, Ravinder | 49 |
| Mark M. Pomerantz | 49 |
| Vance, David E | 49 |
| Rachel Kelz | 49 |
| Eytan Stein | 49 |
| Diana J Wilkie | 49 |
| Jing Ning | 49 |
| Dipan J. Shah | 49 |
| Gretchen Gierach | 49 |
| Saini, Sharanjot | 49 |
| Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong | 49 |
| Harris, Holly Ruth | 49 |
| Arbogast, Kristy | 49 |
| Benjamin Leiby | 49 |
| Peter James Henry Scott | 49 |
| Saxon, Andrew J | 49 |
| Fred Stephen Sarfo | 49 |
| Kowalski, Jeanne | 49 |
| Xiaotu Ma | 49 |
Agreement with other citation measures
How closely each measure below puts researchers in the same order as h-index, among researchers who have both (Spearman rank correlation). 1 means the same order, 0 means no relation, and −1 means the reverse order.
- OpenAlex i10-index50,136 researchers0.98
- g-index50,136 researchers0.96
- OpenAlex-indexed citations50,136 researchers0.94
- hm-index50,136 researchers0.91
- Impact depth47,917 researchers-0.79