Energy

#21 of 27

Editorial board composition

4,706
Positions
4,552
Editors
64
Journals
86
Countries
36.1
Mean h-index

Energy ranks #21 among 27 fields. 4,706 positions across 64 journals. 4,552 editors. 28.4% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 36.1 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 71.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 28.4% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
2,320
Female
920
Unknown
1,312

28.4% female · 71.6% male (of 3,240 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
25.0% 1,136
United States
9.7% 443
Italy
6.4% 293
South Korea
4.0% 182
United Kingdom
4.0% 180
Spain
3.8% 172
France
2.9% 131
Australia
2.8% 126
Germany
2.7% 123
Taiwan
2.1% 96

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).

0.681
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.
0.284
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 16–36 yr (spread 20 yr), mean 28 yr, n = 2,950. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.