Energy

#22 of 26

Editorial board composition

5,906
Positions
5,670
Editors
94
Journals
92
Countries
35.5
Mean h-index

Energy ranks #22 among 26 fields. 5,906 positions across 94 journals. 5,670 editors. 27.7% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 35.5 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 70.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 27.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
2,878
Female
1,103
Unknown
1,689

27.7% female · 72.3% male (of 3,981 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
18.7% 1,063
United States
8.9% 504
Italy
4.9% 277
United Kingdom
3.7% 210
South Korea
3.5% 198
Spain
2.9% 166
Australia
2.5% 142
Germany
2.2% 123
Taiwan
2.0% 113
Canada
1.9% 109

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.
0.218
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–36 yr (spread 20 yr), mean 28.2 yr, n = 3,675. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.