Nursing

#24 of 26

Editorial board composition

2,718
Positions
2,650
Editors
57
Journals
89
Countries
22.3
Mean h-index

Nursing ranks #24 among 26 fields. 2,718 positions across 57 journals. 2,650 editors. 49.1% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 22.3 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 73.4% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 49.1% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
926
Female
894
Androgynous
126
Unknown
704

49.1% female · 50.9% male (of 1,820 resolved; global avg 33.7%)

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
18.0% 477
China
6.2% 165
United Kingdom
4.6% 122
India
3.1% 81
Italy
2.9% 76
Canada
2.6% 69
Australia
2.6% 69
Brazil
2.0% 53
Türkiye
1.8% 49
Spain
1.4% 37

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).

0.708
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.
0.273
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 13–37 yr (spread 24 yr), mean 28.6 yr, n = 1,524. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.