Australia

#6 of 194

3.6% of editorial positions

26,890
Positions
19,751
Editors
7,391
Journals
46
Publishers
22.8
Mean h-index

Australia ranks #6 among 194 countries. 26,890 positions across 7,391 journals. 19,751 editors. 38.8% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 22.8 (above avg 22.5). 3.6% of global positions.

Gender distribution

Male
10,514
Female
6,661
Unknown
2,576

38.8% female · 61.2% male (of 17,175 resolved; global avg 33%)

Each editor counted once at this entity (composite identity key). Gender is inferred from the first name — not self-reported — and coverage drops for non-Latin-script names, which inflates the "unknown" bar in some countries.

Board diversity

Per-editor diversity indicators. Each editor is counted once (composite identity key). The Shannon columns use Pielou's normalisation J = H / ln(k) so values are comparable across entities with different numbers of categories. See the methodology for full definitions, use cases, and references (Shannon 1948; Pielou 1966; Jost 2006).

0.785
Pielou's J over OpenAlex scientific fields. High values mean this entity's editors span many disciplines (a broad multidisciplinary footprint); low values mean they cluster in one field. Especially informative for institution pages, where the country and org_type Shannons are trivially zero.
0.216
Pielou's J over the ROR org_type field (education, healthcare, facility, government, nonprofit, company, archive). Low values mean editors come overwhelmingly from one kind of institution — usually universities, which account for about 83% of the editors with a known institution type dataset-wide. Higher values indicate editorial boards that reach into clinical practice, public labs, industry, or scientific societies.
27 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–43 yr (spread 27 yr), mean 32.9 yr, n = 14,064. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.