Immunology and Microbiology

#19 of 26

Editorial board composition

10,636
Positions
10,285
Editors
108
Journals
102
Countries
32.1
Mean h-index

Immunology and Microbiology ranks #19 among 26 fields. 10,636 positions across 108 journals. 10,285 editors. 32.5% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 32.1 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
5,721
Female
2,753
Unknown
1,811

32.5% female · 67.5% male (of 8,474 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
19.2% 1,975
Italy
4.8% 489
China
4.5% 467
United Kingdom
4.0% 415
Germany
3.1% 322
Japan
3.0% 311
Australia
2.5% 254
France
1.9% 198
Canada
1.9% 191
Spain
1.5% 153

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).

0.622
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 32.1 yr, n = 5,158. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.