Mathematics

#15 of 26

Editorial board composition

15,842
Positions
13,968
Editors
305
Journals
110
Countries
19.7
Mean h-index

Mathematics ranks #15 among 26 fields. 15,842 positions across 305 journals. 13,968 editors. 21.8% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 19.7 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 78.8% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 21.8% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
8,612
Female
2,400
Unknown
2,956

21.8% female · 78.2% male (of 11,012 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
19.0% 2,655
China
7.4% 1,032
Italy
5.2% 732
Spain
4.2% 586
United Kingdom
3.7% 519
Germany
3.7% 517
Canada
2.3% 326
France
2.3% 323
India
2.1% 288
Japan
1.9% 271

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).

0.670
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.
0.168
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 30.8 yr, n = 8,781. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.