Business, Management and Accounting

#5 of 26

Editorial board composition

44,870
Positions
37,894
Editors
498
Journals
122
Countries
17.9
Mean h-index

Business, Management and Accounting ranks #5 among 26 fields. 44,870 positions across 498 journals. 37,894 editors. 34.5% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 17.9 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 76.3% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 34.5% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
18,060
Female
9,511
Androgynous
1,361
Unknown
8,962

34.5% female · 65.5% male (of 27,571 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
20.8% 7,877
United Kingdom
7.7% 2,927
Italy
3.9% 1,462
Australia
3.6% 1,366
China
3.5% 1,310
Canada
2.9% 1,087
Spain
2.6% 1,003
Germany
2.4% 911
France
2.1% 812
India
1.9% 710

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).

0.639
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.
0.079
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 27.8 yr, n = 22,647. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.