Neuroscience

#11 of 26

Editorial board composition

24,839
Positions
22,250
Editors
332
Journals
98
Countries
27.7
Mean h-index

Neuroscience ranks #11 among 26 fields. 24,839 positions across 332 journals. 22,250 editors. 34.5% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 27.7 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
12,403
Female
6,525
Unknown
3,322

34.5% female · 65.5% male (of 18,928 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
24.6% 5,476
United Kingdom
6.0% 1,345
Italy
4.3% 950
China
3.8% 855
Germany
3.6% 812
Canada
3.3% 735
Japan
2.9% 637
Australia
2.5% 561
France
1.7% 375
Spain
1.6% 363

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).

0.599
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.
0.259
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–41 yr (spread 24 yr), mean 31.8 yr, n = 12,633. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.