Earth and Planetary Sciences

#18 of 26

Editorial board composition

12,744
Positions
11,941
Editors
289
Journals
96
Countries
23.2
Mean h-index

Earth and Planetary Sciences ranks #18 among 26 fields. 12,744 positions across 289 journals. 11,941 editors. 28.5% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 23.2 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 77.8% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 28.5% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
6,641
Female
2,646
Unknown
2,654

28.5% female · 71.5% male (of 9,287 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
12.0% 1,431
China
9.4% 1,124
United Kingdom
5.8% 698
Italy
4.4% 528
Japan
3.1% 365
Germany
3.0% 361
Australia
2.4% 290
Spain
2.2% 259
Russia
2.0% 239
Canada
1.9% 227

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).

0.682
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.
0.349
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 31.3 yr, n = 6,613. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.