China

#2 of 194

10.2% of editorial positions

76,650
Positions
54,186
Editors
7,623
Journals
48
Publishers
29
Mean h-index

China ranks #2 among 194 countries. 76,650 positions across 7,623 journals. 54,186 editors. 28.4% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 29 (above avg 22.5). 10.2% of global positions.

Gender distribution

Low gender-inference coverage: only 44.2% of editors here have an inferred gender. The 28.4% figure is a share of the classifiable minority, not of the whole board. Typically caused by CJK-script names (Chinese / Korean / Taiwanese) that the WGND 2.0 dictionary cannot disambiguate.
Male
17,162
Female
6,808
Unknown
30,216

28.4% female · 71.6% male (of 23,970 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.

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).

0.781
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.
0.336
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.
24 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–32 yr (spread 15 yr), mean 24.2 yr, n = 40,408. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.