Energy

#22 of 26

Editorial board composition

5,668
Positions
5,456
Editors
84
Journals
94
Countries
36.7
Mean h-index

Energy ranks #22 among 26 fields. 5,668 positions across 84 journals. 5,456 editors. 29.1% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 36.7 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 61.6% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 29.1% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
1,991
Female
818
Androgynous
550
Unknown
2,097

29.1% female · 70.9% male (of 2,809 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

China
18.8% 1,027
United States
8.7% 477
Italy
4.9% 267
United Kingdom
3.8% 210
South Korea
3.5% 191
Spain
3.0% 163
Australia
2.6% 140
Germany
2.3% 124
Taiwan
2.0% 111
Canada
2.0% 107

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).

0.677
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.
0.217
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 17–36 yr (spread 19 yr), mean 28.7 yr, n = 3,523. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.