Dentistry

#23 of 26

Editorial board composition

4,800
Positions
4,320
Editors
79
Journals
80
Countries
22.3
Mean h-index

Dentistry ranks #23 among 26 fields. 4,800 positions across 79 journals. 4,320 editors. 31.4% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 22.3 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 73.8% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 31.4% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
2,112
Female
968
Androgynous
109
Unknown
1,131

31.4% female · 68.6% male (of 3,080 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
10.6% 460
Italy
5.8% 250
Japan
4.9% 212
Brazil
4.2% 183
United Kingdom
3.5% 151
India
3.1% 134
China
2.6% 112
Germany
2.2% 94
South Korea
1.7% 72
Australia
1.4% 62

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).

0.748
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.
0.182
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 14–39 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 29.2 yr, n = 2,095. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.