Business, Management and Accounting

#5 of 26

Editorial board composition

48,562
Positions
40,450
Editors
546
Journals
122
Countries
17.6
Mean h-index

Business, Management and Accounting ranks #5 among 26 fields. 48,562 positions across 546 journals. 40,450 editors. 33.8% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 17.6 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
22,477
Female
11,472
Unknown
6,501

33.8% female · 66.2% male (of 33,949 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
20.5% 8,283
United Kingdom
7.6% 3,054
Italy
3.7% 1,510
Australia
3.5% 1,429
China
3.4% 1,373
Canada
2.8% 1,132
Spain
2.6% 1,039
Germany
2.4% 965
France
2.1% 858
India
2.0% 799

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).

0.640
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.
0.080
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.
23 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–35 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 27.7 yr, n = 23,752. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.