Computer Science

#10 of 27

Editorial board composition

36,751
Positions
31,029
Editors
656
Journals
121
Countries
22.6
Mean h-index

Computer Science ranks #10 among 27 fields. 36,751 positions across 656 journals. 31,029 editors. 21.7% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 22.6 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 77.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 21.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
18,750
Female
5,195
Unknown
7,084

21.7% female · 78.3% male (of 23,945 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
16.6% 5,158
China
12.0% 3,708
Italy
6.0% 1,853
United Kingdom
5.5% 1,701
India
4.4% 1,361
Germany
3.0% 920
Australia
2.7% 846
Canada
2.6% 811
Spain
2.6% 801
France
2.4% 746

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).

0.674
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.
0.202
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.
24 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–35 yr (spread 19 yr), mean 27.6 yr, n = 20,076. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.