Arts and Humanities

#13 of 26

Editorial board composition

16,385
Positions
15,233
Editors
516
Journals
105
Countries
13.6
Mean h-index

Arts and Humanities ranks #13 among 26 fields. 16,385 positions across 516 journals. 15,233 editors. 45.4% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 13.6 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Male
6,913
Female
5,756
Androgynous
331
Unknown
2,233

45.4% female · 54.6% male (of 12,669 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 countries

United States
24.8% 3,776
United Kingdom
11.4% 1,733
Canada
2.7% 408
Australia
2.7% 406
Germany
2.6% 390
China
2.1% 315
Italy
1.6% 244
Spain
1.5% 230
The Netherlands
1.4% 207
Sweden
1.1% 162

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).

0.580
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.
0.115
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 33.8 yr, n = 9,051. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.