Immunology and Microbiology

#23 of 27

Editorial board composition

4,311
Positions
4,158
Editors
59
Journals
93
Countries
31.2
Mean h-index

Immunology and Microbiology ranks #23 among 27 fields. 4,311 positions across 59 journals. 4,158 editors. 32.6% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 31.2 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.5% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 32.6% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
2,226
Female
1,078
Unknown
854

32.6% female · 67.4% male (of 3,304 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
21.2% 881
China
7.0% 291
United Kingdom
5.5% 227
Italy
4.6% 191
Japan
3.5% 146
Germany
2.7% 113
Australia
2.5% 104
France
2.2% 93
Canada
2.1% 88
Spain
1.9% 80

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).

0.629
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.
0.436
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.
30 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 18–43 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 32.8 yr, n = 1,780. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.