Business, Management and Accounting

#6 of 27

Editorial board composition

47,643
Positions
37,970
Editors
622
Journals
128
Countries
17.2
Mean h-index

Business, Management and Accounting ranks #6 among 27 fields. 47,643 positions across 622 journals. 37,970 editors. 33.0% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 17.2 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
21,407
Female
10,567
Unknown
5,996

33.0% female · 67.0% male (of 31,974 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
25.1% 9,519
United Kingdom
8.6% 3,283
Australia
3.8% 1,453
China
3.3% 1,268
Italy
3.2% 1,224
Canada
3.1% 1,165
India
2.8% 1,046
Germany
2.7% 1,037
France
2.5% 945
Spain
1.9% 730

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).

0.622
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.
0.067
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.
23 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–36 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 28.2 yr, n = 22,062. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.