Immunology and Microbiology

#19 of 26

Editorial board composition

10,304
Positions
10,040
Editors
98
Journals
100
Countries
32.4
Mean h-index

Immunology and Microbiology ranks #19 among 26 fields. 10,304 positions across 98 journals. 10,040 editors. 33.2% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 32.4 (above avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 76.1% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 33.2% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
4,811
Female
2,388
Androgynous
444
Unknown
2,397

33.2% female · 66.8% male (of 7,199 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
19.1% 1,913
Italy
4.8% 478
China
4.4% 445
United Kingdom
4.0% 405
Germany
3.1% 315
Japan
3.1% 308
Australia
2.3% 230
France
2.0% 196
Canada
1.8% 182
Spain
1.5% 148

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).

0.624
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.
0.411
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.
30 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 19–41 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 32.4 yr, n = 4,993. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.