Economics, Econometrics and Finance

#10 of 26

Editorial board composition

25,911
Positions
23,838
Editors
583
Journals
118
Countries
21.8
Mean h-index

Economics, Econometrics and Finance ranks #10 among 26 fields. 25,911 positions across 583 journals. 23,838 editors. 29.3% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 21.8 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 74.4% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 29.3% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
11,805
Female
4,890
Androgynous
1,032
Unknown
6,111

29.3% female · 70.7% male (of 16,695 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
21.5% 5,116
United Kingdom
8.1% 1,941
China
4.9% 1,167
Italy
3.4% 806
Australia
3.1% 745
Canada
2.5% 595
Germany
2.5% 595
France
2.1% 504
India
2.1% 498
Japan
1.6% 392

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).

0.614
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.
0.228
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.
27 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–41 yr (spread 24 yr), mean 32 yr, n = 14,146. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.