Earth and Planetary Sciences

#18 of 27

Editorial board composition

10,652
Positions
9,880
Editors
249
Journals
99
Countries
23
Mean h-index

Earth and Planetary Sciences ranks #18 among 27 fields. 10,652 positions across 249 journals. 9,880 editors. 27.7% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 23 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 77.1% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 27.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
5,507
Female
2,115
Unknown
2,258

27.7% female · 72.3% male (of 7,622 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

China
15.3% 1,507
United States
14.4% 1,418
United Kingdom
6.4% 629
Italy
5.0% 495
Russia
4.6% 450
Japan
3.6% 358
Germany
3.4% 338
France
2.7% 265
Australia
2.7% 263
Spain
2.4% 238

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).

0.663
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.
0.419
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.
27 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–40 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 31.4 yr, n = 5,488. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.