Environmental Science

#7 of 26

Editorial board composition

39,509
Positions
35,936
Editors
601
Journals
143
Countries
25.2
Mean h-index

Environmental Science ranks #7 among 26 fields. 39,509 positions across 601 journals. 35,936 editors. 30.3% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 25.2 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 71.9% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 30.3% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
16,529
Female
7,171
Androgynous
2,140
Unknown
10,096

30.3% female · 69.7% male (of 23,700 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

United States
13.7% 4,922
China
9.6% 3,446
Italy
4.8% 1,733
United Kingdom
4.0% 1,424
Spain
2.8% 1,019
Australia
2.7% 987
Canada
2.6% 952
Germany
2.4% 873
India
2.3% 825
Japan
1.9% 700

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).

0.661
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.
0.310
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 15–37 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 28.5 yr, n = 21,184. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.