Chemical Engineering

#25 of 26

Editorial board composition

1,385
Positions
1,360
Editors
29
Journals
60
Countries
29.4
Mean h-index

Chemical Engineering ranks #25 among 26 fields. 1,385 positions across 29 journals. 1,360 editors. 23.0% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 29.4 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 77.8% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 23.0% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
815
Female
243
Unknown
302

23.0% female · 77.0% male (of 1,058 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
15.9% 216
United States
11.5% 157
India
5.9% 80
Italy
4.7% 64
United Kingdom
3.6% 49
Germany
3.0% 41
Spain
2.6% 35
South Korea
2.5% 34
Japan
2.4% 33
Australia
2.2% 30

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).

0.755
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.
0.266
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–39 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 29.6 yr, n = 916. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.