Publications & citations
Impact depth
Share of all citations that go to the five most-cited works.
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
- 47,917
- Median
- 42.05%
- Half are at or below
- Middle half
- 29.64% to 58.33%
- 25th to 75th percentile
- 90th percentile
- 73.89%
- 9 in 10 are at or below
Researchers by impact depth
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 under 10% | 153 | 0.3% |
| 10% to under 20% | 3,579 | 7.5% |
| 20% to under 30% | 8,565 | 17.9% |
| 30% to under 40% | 9,768 | 20.4% |
| 40% to under 50% | 8,367 | 17.5% |
| 50% to under 60% | 6,457 | 13.5% |
| 60% to under 70% | 4,730 | 9.9% |
| 70% to under 80% | 3,414 | 7.1% |
| 80% to under 90% | 2,198 | 4.6% |
| 90% to under 100% | 686 | 1.4% |
Explore researchers
Sort order describes this measure; it is not an overall assessment of a researcher.
Showing 153 researchers with impact depth 0% to under 10%.Show all researchers
153 researchers · Page 1. Table bars compare sizes within this page.
| Researcher | Impact depth |
|---|---|
| Segal, Stanton | 10% |
| Perry Franklin Renshaw | 9.99% |
| David C. Muddiman | 9.99% |
| Gao, Xiang | 9.96% |
| Alavi, Abass | 9.94% |
| Ettore Appella | 9.94% |
| Fan, Jia | 9.93% |
| De Pablo, Juan J | 9.9% |
| John A. Tainer | 9.89% |
| Gertraud Maskarinec | 9.89% |
| Zewail, Ahmed H. | 9.89% |
| Gill, Inderbir | 9.87% |
| Bates, David W | 9.85% |
| Insup Lee | 9.85% |
| Marvin J Miller | 9.84% |
| Chesney, Russell W. | 9.83% |
| Uckun, Fatih M | 9.83% |
| Harvey, Philip D. | 9.81% |
| Oh, Tae H | 9.79% |
| Curhan, Gary C. | 9.79% |
| Murphy, Brian R. | 9.77% |
| Shin, Alexander Y. | 9.76% |
| Steven C. Almo | 9.75% |
| Joseph David Tucker | 9.75% |
| Slotkin, Theodore A | 9.73% |
Agreement with other citation measures
How closely each measure below puts researchers in the same order as impact depth, among researchers who have both (Spearman rank correlation). 1 means the same order, 0 means no relation, and −1 means the reverse order.
- OpenAlex-indexed citations47,917 researchers-0.58
- g-index47,917 researchers-0.63
- h-index47,917 researchers-0.79
- hm-index47,917 researchers-0.79
- OpenAlex i10-index47,917 researchers-0.82
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