United States

#1 of 189

26.5% of editorial positions

166,307
Positions
130,349
Editors
12,498
Journals
48
Publishers
22.1
Mean h-index

United States ranks #1 among 189 countries. 166,307 positions across 12,498 journals. 130,349 editors. 37.1% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 22.1 (below avg 22.7). 26.5% of global positions.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.4% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 37.1% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
62,234
Female
36,632
Androgynous
4,604
Unknown
26,879

37.1% female · 62.9% male (of 98,866 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).

0.821
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.
0.285
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.
27 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 15–42 yr (spread 27 yr), mean 32.1 yr, n = 99,659. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.