Environmental Science

#7 of 26

Editorial board composition

42,496
Positions
38,323
Editors
684
Journals
144
Countries
24.9
Mean h-index

Environmental Science ranks #7 among 26 fields. 42,496 positions across 684 journals. 38,323 editors. 29.4% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 24.9 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.6% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 29.4% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
21,522
Female
8,977
Unknown
7,824

29.4% female · 70.6% male (of 30,499 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

United States
13.9% 5,309
China
9.6% 3,685
Italy
4.6% 1,764
United Kingdom
4.0% 1,544
Spain
2.7% 1,052
Australia
2.7% 1,041
Canada
2.7% 1,018
Germany
2.4% 934
India
2.3% 884
Japan
1.8% 686

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).

0.660
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.
0.306
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 15–36 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 28.1 yr, n = 22,513. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.