Economics, Econometrics and Finance

#11 of 27

Editorial board composition

20,024
Positions
17,502
Editors
464
Journals
115
Countries
19.1
Mean h-index

Economics, Econometrics and Finance ranks #11 among 27 fields. 20,024 positions across 464 journals. 17,502 editors. 25.6% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 19.1 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
10,467
Female
3,601
Unknown
3,434

25.6% female · 74.4% male (of 14,068 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
26.1% 4,560
United Kingdom
9.5% 1,667
China
4.4% 773
Italy
4.4% 770
Australia
3.1% 534
Germany
3.0% 527
Canada
2.7% 468
France
2.7% 464
India
2.4% 427
Spain
2.0% 356

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).

0.616
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.
0.182
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–40 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 31.9 yr, n = 10,676. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.