Dentistry

#23 of 26

Editorial board composition

5,197
Positions
4,681
Editors
87
Journals
81
Countries
22.2
Mean h-index

Dentistry ranks #23 among 26 fields. 5,197 positions across 87 journals. 4,681 editors. 31.0% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 22.2 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
2,710
Female
1,217
Unknown
754

31.0% female · 69.0% male (of 3,927 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
10.7% 499
Italy
5.6% 262
Japan
5.4% 251
Brazil
4.1% 192
United Kingdom
3.3% 154
India
2.9% 135
China
2.5% 116
Germany
2.2% 103
South Korea
1.7% 78
Canada
1.3% 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).

0.743
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.
0.192
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.
25 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–39.5 yr (spread 25.5 yr), mean 29.4 yr, n = 2,239. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.