Mathematics

#15 of 26

Editorial board composition

14,801
Positions
13,264
Editors
280
Journals
110
Countries
20
Mean h-index

Mathematics ranks #15 among 26 fields. 14,801 positions across 280 journals. 13,264 editors. 21.4% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 20 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 71.9% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 21.4% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
7,006
Female
1,913
Androgynous
618
Unknown
3,727

21.4% female · 78.6% male (of 8,919 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
19.0% 2,517
China
7.3% 974
Italy
5.4% 710
Spain
4.0% 533
Germany
3.7% 496
United Kingdom
3.7% 487
Canada
2.4% 318
France
2.3% 304
India
2.1% 285
Japan
2.0% 264

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).

0.673
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.
0.165
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.
27 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 18–40 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 30.9 yr, n = 8,386. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.