Arts and Humanities

#13 of 26

Editorial board composition

18,132
Positions
16,788
Editors
569
Journals
109
Countries
13.4
Mean h-index

Arts and Humanities ranks #13 among 26 fields. 18,132 positions across 569 journals. 16,788 editors. 45.9% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 13.4 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
8,155
Female
6,906
Unknown
1,727

45.9% female · 54.1% male (of 15,061 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
24.6% 4,127
United Kingdom
11.4% 1,914
Australia
2.7% 456
Canada
2.6% 441
Germany
2.5% 423
China
2.0% 336
Italy
1.7% 289
Spain
1.5% 247
The Netherlands
1.4% 228
Japan
1.2% 203

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).

0.579
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.
0.119
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 16–43 yr (spread 27 yr), mean 33.7 yr, n = 9,979. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.