Nursing

#25 of 27

Editorial board composition

1,329
Positions
1,312
Editors
34
Journals
69
Countries
22.6
Mean h-index

Nursing ranks #25 among 27 fields. 1,329 positions across 34 journals. 1,312 editors. 52.8% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 22.6 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
524
Female
585
Unknown
203

52.8% female · 47.2% male (of 1,109 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
25.9% 340
United Kingdom
7.2% 94
China
6.2% 81
Canada
4.1% 54
Australia
3.2% 42
Italy
2.1% 27
Germany
1.9% 25
India
1.6% 21
Brazil
1.5% 20
Türkiye
1.2% 16

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).

0.676
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.
0.312
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.
27 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 15–43 yr (spread 28 yr), mean 32.1 yr, n = 687. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.