Engineering

#2 of 26

Editorial board composition

99,927
Positions
85,258
Editors
1,493
Journals
134
Countries
25.4
Mean h-index

Engineering ranks #2 among 26 fields. 99,927 positions across 1,493 journals. 85,258 editors. 21.9% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 25.4 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 71.6% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 21.9% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
47,671
Female
13,351
Unknown
24,236

21.9% female · 78.1% male (of 61,022 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
13.2% 11,231
United States
12.5% 10,689
Italy
5.4% 4,626
United Kingdom
4.8% 4,058
South Korea
3.3% 2,790
Japan
2.4% 2,025
Spain
2.3% 1,955
Germany
2.2% 1,875
India
2.2% 1,838
Canada
2.1% 1,799

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).

0.638
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.
0.204
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.
25 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 16–36 yr (spread 20 yr), mean 27.8 yr, n = 51,938. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.