Environmental Science

#8 of 27

Editorial board composition

42,348
Positions
37,630
Editors
681
Journals
146
Countries
25
Mean h-index

Environmental Science ranks #8 among 27 fields. 42,348 positions across 681 journals. 37,630 editors. 30.0% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 25 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
21,127
Female
9,034
Unknown
7,469

30.0% female · 70.0% male (of 30,161 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
16.8% 6,306
China
12.9% 4,867
Italy
5.2% 1,955
United Kingdom
4.5% 1,707
Spain
3.3% 1,240
Australia
3.2% 1,222
Canada
3.1% 1,151
Germany
3.0% 1,125
India
2.7% 1,022
Japan
2.1% 784

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).

0.656
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.
0.346
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 15–37 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 28.4 yr, n = 22,234. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.