Engineering

#2 of 26

Editorial board composition

92,488
Positions
79,590
Editors
1,331
Journals
130
Countries
26.2
Mean h-index

Engineering ranks #2 among 26 fields. 92,488 positions across 1,331 journals. 79,590 editors. 22.0% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 26.2 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 63.7% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 22.0% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
34,368
Female
9,718
Androgynous
6,603
Unknown
28,901

22.0% female · 78.0% male (of 44,086 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
13.4% 10,664
United States
12.5% 9,929
Italy
5.6% 4,455
United Kingdom
4.7% 3,724
South Korea
3.2% 2,586
Japan
2.4% 1,908
Spain
2.4% 1,889
Germany
2.2% 1,753
Canada
2.1% 1,674
Australia
2.0% 1,627

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).

0.640
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 28.1 yr, n = 48,644. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.