Decision Sciences

#20 of 26

Editorial board composition

10,625
Positions
9,833
Editors
183
Journals
110
Countries
20.3
Mean h-index

Decision Sciences ranks #20 among 26 fields. 10,625 positions across 183 journals. 9,833 editors. 27.5% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 20.3 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.1% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 27.5% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
5,633
Female
2,142
Unknown
2,058

27.5% female · 72.5% male (of 7,775 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
20.6% 2,029
United Kingdom
6.7% 655
China
6.6% 649
Australia
3.0% 294
Italy
2.9% 289
India
2.8% 275
Canada
2.7% 266
Germany
2.0% 201
Spain
1.7% 165
France
1.7% 164

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.
0.142
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 15–36 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 28.3 yr, n = 6,362. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.