Decision Sciences

#20 of 27

Editorial board composition

8,019
Positions
7,376
Editors
138
Journals
107
Countries
20.2
Mean h-index

Decision Sciences ranks #20 among 27 fields. 8,019 positions across 138 journals. 7,376 editors. 27.7% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 20.2 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 27.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
4,225
Female
1,615
Unknown
1,536

27.7% female · 72.3% male (of 5,840 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
27.0% 1,992
United Kingdom
7.0% 520
China
5.7% 418
Australia
3.6% 263
India
3.1% 228
Canada
2.8% 204
Italy
2.7% 196
Germany
2.6% 191
Taiwan
1.8% 134
The Netherlands
1.8% 133

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).

0.656
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.
0.161
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 15–37 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 29 yr, n = 4,792. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.