Decision Sciences

#20 of 27

Editorial board composition

8,060
Positions
7,449
Editors
141
Journals
104
Countries
20.2
Mean h-index

Decision Sciences ranks #20 among 27 fields. 8,060 positions across 141 journals. 7,449 editors. 27.6% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 20.2 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.1% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 27.6% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
4,263
Female
1,626
Unknown
1,560

27.6% female · 72.4% male (of 5,889 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
23.2% 1,725
United Kingdom
6.3% 473
China
5.1% 380
Australia
3.1% 232
India
2.9% 217
Canada
2.6% 194
Italy
2.3% 170
Germany
2.3% 169
Spain
1.7% 124
The Netherlands
1.7% 124

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).

0.664
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.
0.156
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 85% 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 = 4,830. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.