Computer Science

#9 of 26

Editorial board composition

36,805
Positions
32,777
Editors
605
Journals
123
Countries
24
Mean h-index

Computer Science ranks #9 among 26 fields. 36,805 positions across 605 journals. 32,777 editors. 22.3% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 24 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 68.6% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 22.3% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
15,596
Female
4,465
Androgynous
2,421
Unknown
10,295

22.3% female · 77.7% male (of 20,061 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

United States
14.1% 4,631
China
9.7% 3,194
Italy
6.0% 1,954
United Kingdom
4.8% 1,567
India
3.1% 1,027
Spain
2.7% 886
Germany
2.5% 829
Australia
2.3% 758
Canada
2.3% 750
France
2.0% 669

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.
0.185
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 16.2–36 yr (spread 19.8 yr), mean 28.7 yr, n = 21,262. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.