Arts and Humanities

#14 of 27

Editorial board composition

17,030
Positions
15,752
Editors
576
Journals
110
Countries
13
Mean h-index

Arts and Humanities ranks #14 among 27 fields. 17,030 positions across 576 journals. 15,752 editors. 45.6% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 13 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
7,739
Female
6,496
Unknown
1,517

45.6% female · 54.4% male (of 14,235 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
28.5% 4,488
United Kingdom
13.7% 2,153
Germany
3.2% 506
Canada
2.8% 434
Australia
2.7% 428
China
2.0% 315
Italy
2.0% 308
The Netherlands
1.7% 268
Spain
1.6% 255
France
1.4% 216

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).

0.565
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.
0.129
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–44 yr (spread 27 yr), mean 34.2 yr, n = 9,499. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.