South Africa
#29 of 1940.6% of editorial positions
South Africa ranks #29 among 194 countries. 4,656 positions across 2,393 journals. 3,678 editors. 40.6% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 15.5 (below avg 22.5). 0.6% of global positions.
Gender distribution
Gender-inference coverage: 76.8% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 40.6% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.
40.6% female · 59.4% male (of 2,825 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).
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.