Nursing

#24 of 26

Editorial board composition

2,929
Positions
2,861
Editors
61
Journals
84
Countries
22.3
Mean h-index

Nursing ranks #24 among 26 fields. 2,929 positions across 61 journals. 2,861 editors. 50.6% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 22.3 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
1,164
Female
1,194
Unknown
503

50.6% female · 49.4% male (of 2,358 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
16.8% 480
China
5.5% 156
United Kingdom
4.3% 122
Italy
2.9% 82
Canada
2.6% 75
Australia
2.6% 75
India
2.4% 68
Brazil
1.8% 52
Türkiye
1.5% 43
Spain
1.3% 38

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).

0.715
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.
0.278
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.
24 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 13–38 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 28.7 yr, n = 1,500. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.