Engineering

#2 of 27

Editorial board composition

105,620
Positions
87,224
Editors
1,684
Journals
135
Countries
25.2
Mean h-index

Engineering ranks #2 among 27 fields. 105,620 positions across 1,684 journals. 87,224 editors. 20.7% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 25.2 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 71.7% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 20.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
49,580
Female
12,958
Unknown
24,686

20.7% female · 79.3% male (of 62,538 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
16.3% 14,240
United States
14.3% 12,513
Italy
6.2% 5,382
United Kingdom
5.3% 4,639
South Korea
3.5% 3,050
India
2.7% 2,398
Germany
2.6% 2,267
Japan
2.6% 2,249
Spain
2.5% 2,214
Australia
2.4% 2,122

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).

0.643
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.
0.230
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.
25 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–36 yr (spread 20 yr), mean 27.7 yr, n = 53,752. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.