Decision Sciences

#20 of 26

Editorial board composition

9,492
Positions
8,841
Editors
159
Journals
110
Countries
20.6
Mean h-index

Decision Sciences ranks #20 among 26 fields. 9,492 positions across 159 journals. 8,841 editors. 28.2% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 20.6 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 71.3% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 28.2% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
4,210
Female
1,655
Androgynous
435
Unknown
2,541

28.2% female · 71.8% male (of 5,865 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
20.8% 1,838
United Kingdom
6.7% 591
China
6.0% 527
Italy
3.0% 266
India
3.0% 262
Australia
2.9% 257
Canada
2.8% 248
Germany
2.1% 184
France
1.8% 157
Spain
1.7% 150

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).

0.671
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.
0.143
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.
24 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 15–37 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 28.9 yr, n = 5,700. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.