Chemical Engineering

#25 of 26

Editorial board composition

1,339
Positions
1,316
Editors
28
Journals
60
Countries
29.3
Mean h-index

Chemical Engineering ranks #25 among 26 fields. 1,339 positions across 28 journals. 1,316 editors. 24.3% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 29.3 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 66.3% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 24.3% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
587
Female
188
Androgynous
97
Unknown
444

24.3% female · 75.7% male (of 775 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

China
16.1% 212
United States
11.6% 152
India
6.1% 80
Italy
4.8% 63
United Kingdom
3.6% 47
Germany
3.0% 40
South Korea
2.4% 32
Spain
2.4% 32
Russia
2.3% 30
Australia
2.2% 29

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).

0.751
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.
0.272
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 16.8–39 yr (spread 22.2 yr), mean 29.7 yr, n = 892. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.