Canada

#7 of 194

3.3% of editorial positions

24,900
Positions
18,634
Editors
7,687
Journals
48
Publishers
21.6
Mean h-index

Canada ranks #7 among 194 countries. 24,900 positions across 7,687 journals. 18,634 editors. 35.6% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 21.6 (below avg 22.5). 3.3% of global positions.

Gender distribution

Male
10,533
Female
5,811
Unknown
2,290

35.6% female · 64.4% male (of 16,344 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).

0.794
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.
0.217
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 16–41 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 31.6 yr, n = 13,592. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.