Dentistry

#22 of 27

Editorial board composition

4,604
Positions
4,092
Editors
75
Journals
84
Countries
21.9
Mean h-index

Dentistry ranks #22 among 27 fields. 4,604 positions across 75 journals. 4,092 editors. 31.8% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 21.9 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
2,353
Female
1,096
Unknown
643

31.8% female · 68.2% male (of 3,449 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
13.1% 535
Italy
6.7% 274
Japan
5.1% 208
Brazil
5.0% 204
United Kingdom
4.0% 165
India
3.5% 145
China
3.3% 135
Germany
2.2% 92
Australia
1.4% 59
Canada
1.4% 58

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).

0.740
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.
0.187
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 14–39 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 28.7 yr, n = 1,933. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.