Earth and Planetary Sciences

#18 of 26

Editorial board composition

11,923
Positions
11,225
Editors
268
Journals
95
Countries
23.6
Mean h-index

Earth and Planetary Sciences ranks #18 among 26 fields. 11,923 positions across 268 journals. 11,225 editors. 29.2% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 23.6 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 72.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 29.2% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
5,332
Female
2,198
Androgynous
580
Unknown
3,115

29.2% female · 70.8% male (of 7,530 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
11.9% 1,340
China
9.2% 1,037
United Kingdom
5.7% 644
Italy
4.7% 527
Germany
3.0% 340
Japan
2.8% 312
Australia
2.4% 275
Spain
2.3% 255
Russia
2.1% 233
Canada
1.9% 212

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).

0.685
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.
0.347
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–40 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 31.7 yr, n = 6,205. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.