Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

#3 of 26

Editorial board composition

82,597
Positions
76,924
Editors
714
Journals
138
Countries
27.9
Mean h-index

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ranks #3 among 26 fields. 82,597 positions across 714 journals. 76,924 editors. 33.0% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 27.9 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 70.4% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 33.0% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
33,371
Female
16,419
Androgynous
4,327
Unknown
22,807

33.0% female · 67.0% male (of 49,790 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
15.5% 11,961
China
8.5% 6,556
Italy
5.9% 4,560
India
4.4% 3,355
United Kingdom
3.3% 2,516
Japan
3.0% 2,284
South Korea
2.5% 1,897
Germany
2.5% 1,892
Spain
1.8% 1,411
Canada
1.8% 1,381

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).

0.616
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.
0.322
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–38 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 29.7 yr, n = 42,998. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.