Brazil

#14 of 189

1.4% of editorial positions

8,588
Positions
7,192
Editors
3,380
Journals
43
Publishers
15.6
Mean h-index

Brazil ranks #14 among 189 countries. 8,588 positions across 3,380 journals. 7,192 editors. 31.3% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 15.6 (below avg 22.7). 1.4% of global positions.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.3% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 31.3% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
3,909
Female
1,780
Androgynous
14
Unknown
1,489

31.3% female · 68.7% male (of 5,689 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.

Top scientific fields

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).

0.839
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.
0.168
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.
22 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 12–33 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 24.5 yr, n = 4,773. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.