United Kingdom

#3 of 194

7.5% of editorial positions

55,905
Positions
42,694
Editors
9,895
Journals
48
Publishers
20.6
Mean h-index

United Kingdom ranks #3 among 194 countries. 55,905 positions across 9,895 journals. 42,694 editors. 35.4% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 20.6 (below avg 22.5). 7.5% of global positions.

Gender distribution

Male
24,723
Female
13,563
Unknown
4,408

35.4% female · 64.6% male (of 38,286 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).

0.794
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.
0.216
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 16–45 yr (spread 29 yr), mean 34.7 yr, n = 31,341. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.