Multidisciplinary

#5 of 27

Editorial board composition

50,470
Positions
49,324
Editors
149
Journals
144
Countries
23.2
Mean h-index

Multidisciplinary ranks #5 among 27 fields. 50,470 positions across 149 journals. 49,324 editors. 28.3% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 23.2 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
28,299
Female
11,171
Unknown
9,854

28.3% female · 71.7% male (of 39,470 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
13.0% 6,400
China
10.3% 5,082
Italy
6.8% 3,358
India
6.2% 3,046
United Kingdom
4.0% 1,989
Spain
2.9% 1,438
Japan
2.4% 1,198
Australia
2.2% 1,089
South Korea
2.1% 1,016
Canada
1.9% 924

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).

0.651
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.
0.257
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 85% 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.
23 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–34 yr (spread 20 yr), mean 26.6 yr, n = 33,566. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.