Mathematics

#15 of 27

Editorial board composition

15,757
Positions
13,425
Editors
334
Journals
105
Countries
19
Mean h-index

Mathematics ranks #15 among 27 fields. 15,757 positions across 334 journals. 13,425 editors. 20.1% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 19 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 78% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 20.1% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
8,373
Female
2,100
Unknown
2,952

20.1% female · 79.9% male (of 10,473 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
22.1% 2,971
China
7.9% 1,063
Italy
6.1% 823
Germany
4.4% 597
Spain
4.4% 592
United Kingdom
4.3% 581
France
3.8% 508
Russia
2.8% 378
Canada
2.6% 347
Japan
2.2% 299

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).

0.681
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.
0.183
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 18–40 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 31.6 yr, n = 8,451. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.