Who edits science?

Explore the composition of editorial boards across 15,168 academic journals and 48 publishers. The most comprehensive open dataset of scholarly editorial positions.

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Unique editors
922,097 total positions
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Journals
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Publishers
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Countries
Beijing: 9,965 editors London: 6,195 editors New York: 5,757 editors Shanghai: 5,014 editors Seoul: 4,997 editors Melbourne: 4,514 editors Tokyo: 4,268 editors Sydney: 4,186 editors Rome: 3,753 editors Boston: 3,475 editors Milan: 3,130 editors Toronto: 2,999 editors Madrid: 2,904 editors Philadelphia: 2,895 editors Paris: 2,883 editors Nanjing: 2,835 editors Hong Kong: 2,743 editors Chicago: 2,570 editors Los Angeles: 2,416 editors Houston: 2,402 editors Beijing: 9,965 editors London: 6,195 editors New York: 5,757 editors Shanghai: 5,014 editors Seoul: 4,997 editors Melbourne: 4,514 editors Tokyo: 4,268 editors Sydney: 4,186 editors Rome: 3,753 editors Boston: 3,475 editors Milan: 3,130 editors Toronto: 2,999 editors Madrid: 2,904 editors Philadelphia: 2,895 editors Paris: 2,883 editors Nanjing: 2,835 editors Hong Kong: 2,743 editors Chicago: 2,570 editors Los Angeles: 2,416 editors Houston: 2,402 editors

Dataset at a glance

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Mean h-index
Median: 18 · Max: 283
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Have ORCID
250,372 out of 745,125 unique editors
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Female editors
201,274 out of 610,708 with resolved gender
82% of editors gender-classified via WGND 2.0
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Editors-in-Chief
Across 15,168 journals

Top countries by unique editors

United States
18% 131,485
China
6% 42,534
United Kingdom
5% 37,392
Italy
4% 28,619
Germany
2% 17,635
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Top scientific fields by unique editors

Medicine
22% 162,978
Engineering
10% 76,624
Social Sciences
10% 72,321
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
9% 69,883
Psychology
5% 36,299
Business, Management and Accounting
5% 35,974
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Cite this dataset

If you use Open Editors Plus in your research, please cite:

Chretien, B. (2026). Open Editors Plus 2026: Editorial Board Composition of 15,000+ Academic Journals. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19590816

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What's in the dataset

77+ columns

Name, role, affiliation, ORCID, gender (WGND 2.0 country-aware), bibliometrics, institution, geolocation

Journal quality

PubMed, Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, COPE indexing + NPI level + OpenAlex citedness quartile (per field)

Bibliometrics

h-index, publications, citations, academic age from OpenAlex

Board diversity

Gender balance, country concentration (HHI), institution count per board