Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

#21 of 26

Editorial board composition

6,933
Positions
6,433
Editors
63
Journals
93
Countries
28.8
Mean h-index

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics ranks #21 among 26 fields. 6,933 positions across 63 journals. 6,433 editors. 31.8% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 28.8 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
3,577
Female
1,671
Unknown
1,185

31.8% female · 68.2% male (of 5,248 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
14.2% 915
Italy
8.1% 523
China
5.3% 341
United Kingdom
3.7% 238
Germany
2.9% 188
Spain
2.7% 172
India
2.1% 138
Brazil
2.0% 129
Australia
2.0% 127
Japan
1.9% 124

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).

0.710
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.
0.251
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 17–40 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 30.5 yr, n = 3,646. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.