Materials Science
#12 of 27Editorial board composition
Materials Science ranks #12 among 27 fields. 19,174 positions across 325 journals. 17,053 editors. 25.7% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 32.3 (above avg 22.5).
Gender distribution
Gender-inference coverage: 71.6% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 25.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.
25.7% female · 74.3% male (of 12,218 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
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).
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.