H-Index & i10-Index
| Database (snapshot October 27, 2026) | h-index | i10-index | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex A5066175077 ↗ 422 works indexed |
105 | 203 | 97,347 |
| Google Scholar profile ↗ auto-generated profile — not self-maintained | 133 | 423 | 154,897 |
Scholar indexes A Brief History of Time editions as separate works — his Scholar i10 is roughly double OpenAlex's. OpenAlex counts journal-era output conservatively; Scholar also indexes books, theses, preprints and grey literature — Scholar figures typically run higher.
Top-cited works in OpenAlex
Used for identity verification — the landmark papers you would expect to be here are.
| Work (top-cited first) | Year | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| Particle creation by black holes ↗ | 1975 | 13,113 |
| The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time ↗ | 1973 | 10,337 |
| Black hole explosions? ↗ | 1974 | 5,662 |
| The four laws of black hole mechanics ↗ | 1973 | 3,926 |
| Action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity ↗ | 1977 | 3,454 |
| Cosmological event horizons, thermodynamics, and particle creation ↗ | 1977 | 3,188 |
| Thermodynamics of black holes in anti-de Sitter space ↗ | 1983 | 3,044 |
| Wave function of the Universe ↗ | 1983 | 3,031 |
Identity & disambiguation
- OpenAlex author ID: A5066175077
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9079-593X
- Google Scholar: auto-generated public profile (not self-maintained)
- Verification: Top works are the landmark papers: Particle Creation by Black Holes (1975, Hawking radiation), The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, Black Hole Explosions? (1974), the four laws of black hole mechanics.
How does 105 compare to the field? The OpenAlex benchmark dataset (63,665 authors) puts a senior physics researcher's median h-index far below these numbers — profiles like Hawking's sit in the extreme tail of the distribution. Compare against field × career-stage benchmarks.
Benchmark Yourself
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OpenAlex data snapshot October 27, 2026; Scholar values read from public profiles October 2026. Metrics drift over time and differ across databases — see methodology.