Health Professions

#19 of 27

Editorial board composition

8,324
Positions
7,929
Editors
216
Journals
105
Countries
18.1
Mean h-index

Health Professions ranks #19 among 27 fields. 8,324 positions across 216 journals. 7,929 editors. 51.2% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 18.1 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
3,412
Female
3,573
Unknown
944

51.2% female · 48.8% male (of 6,985 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
32.1% 2,546
United Kingdom
5.9% 471
Australia
4.4% 350
Canada
3.7% 297
Germany
2.8% 223
China
1.8% 144
Spain
1.6% 125
Italy
1.4% 113
France
1.3% 102
India
1.2% 93

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).

0.568
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.
0.247
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 14–40.8 yr (spread 26.8 yr), mean 30.2 yr, n = 4,066. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.