Computer Science

#8 of 26

Editorial board composition

39,541
Positions
34,858
Editors
653
Journals
123
Countries
23.4
Mean h-index

Computer Science ranks #8 among 26 fields. 39,541 positions across 653 journals. 34,858 editors. 21.7% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 23.4 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 76.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 21.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
20,797
Female
5,776
Unknown
8,285

21.7% female · 78.3% male (of 26,573 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
13.9% 4,841
China
10.4% 3,621
Italy
5.8% 2,028
United Kingdom
4.6% 1,619
India
3.1% 1,085
Spain
2.7% 927
Germany
2.5% 864
Australia
2.3% 792
Canada
2.3% 789
France
2.0% 709

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).

0.669
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.
0.188
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.
25 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–36 yr (spread 20 yr), mean 28.1 yr, n = 22,616. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.