Chemical Engineering

#26 of 27

Editorial board composition

746
Positions
728
Editors
20
Journals
56
Countries
31.8
Mean h-index

Chemical Engineering ranks #26 among 27 fields. 746 positions across 20 journals. 728 editors. 21.9% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 31.8 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 77.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 21.9% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
439
Female
123
Unknown
166

21.9% female · 78.1% male (of 562 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

China
21.0% 153
United States
16.6% 121
Russia
4.1% 30
United Kingdom
4.1% 30
India
4.0% 29
Germany
3.2% 23
Canada
2.6% 19
Italy
2.6% 19
Japan
2.5% 18
South Korea
2.5% 18

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).

0.744
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.
0.325
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 18–40 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 31.6 yr, n = 499. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.