Belgium

#24 of 189

0.7% of editorial positions

4,482
Positions
3,310
Editors
2,518
Journals
43
Publishers
26.8
Mean h-index

Belgium ranks #24 among 189 countries. 4,482 positions across 2,518 journals. 3,310 editors. 28.0% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 26.8 (above avg 22.7). 0.7% of global positions.

Gender distribution

Male
2,002
Female
777
Androgynous
53
Unknown
478

28.0% female · 72.0% male (of 2,779 resolved; global avg 33.7%)

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).

0.820
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.
0.255
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 82% of editors 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 17–38 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 29.5 yr, n = 2,906. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.