Health Professions

#17 of 26

Editorial board composition

12,219
Positions
11,776
Editors
313
Journals
111
Countries
19.2
Mean h-index

Health Professions ranks #17 among 26 fields. 12,219 positions across 313 journals. 11,776 editors. 49.6% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 19.2 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Male
4,658
Female
4,576
Androgynous
293
Unknown
2,249

49.6% female · 50.4% male (of 9,234 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
23.7% 2,792
United Kingdom
5.0% 588
Australia
3.5% 416
Canada
2.8% 326
Germany
1.9% 219
China
1.7% 203
Spain
1.6% 194
Italy
1.4% 159
France
1.1% 135
South Korea
1.1% 130

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).

0.585
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.
0.275
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.
24 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 13.5–39 yr (spread 25.5 yr), mean 29.7 yr, n = 5,711. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.