Agricultural and Biological Sciences

#9 of 27

Editorial board composition

37,924
Positions
33,691
Editors
535
Journals
142
Countries
24.2
Mean h-index

Agricultural and Biological Sciences ranks #9 among 27 fields. 37,924 positions across 535 journals. 33,691 editors. 32.3% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 24.2 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.7% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 32.3% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
18,189
Female
8,665
Unknown
6,837

32.3% female · 67.7% male (of 26,854 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 countries

United States
13.8% 4,655
China
12.1% 4,078
Italy
7.1% 2,405
Spain
4.3% 1,440
United Kingdom
3.7% 1,261
India
3.7% 1,253
Germany
2.9% 984
Japan
2.8% 951
Australia
2.8% 935
Canada
2.3% 789

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).

0.669
Pielou's J over ROR country distribution. 0 = all editors from one country, 1 = perfectly even across every country present. MDPI sits higher than Elsevier here; compare against the top-countries bar to see which countries drive the spread.
0.372
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.
25 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–37 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 29.3 yr, n = 19,299. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.