Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

#4 of 27

Editorial board composition

53,370
Positions
48,379
Editors
627
Journals
124
Countries
30.1
Mean h-index

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ranks #4 among 27 fields. 53,370 positions across 627 journals. 48,379 editors. 32.6% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 30.1 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
27,027
Female
13,059
Unknown
8,293

32.6% female · 67.4% male (of 40,086 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
22.6% 10,948
China
9.1% 4,426
Italy
7.5% 3,636
United Kingdom
4.1% 1,989
Germany
3.3% 1,608
South Korea
3.0% 1,460
Japan
3.0% 1,431
Spain
2.7% 1,330
France
2.4% 1,144
Canada
2.2% 1,066

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).

0.619
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.
0.370
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 17–40 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 31.2 yr, n = 27,183. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.