Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

#24 of 27

Editorial board composition

3,100
Positions
2,717
Editors
34
Journals
66
Countries
27
Mean h-index

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics ranks #24 among 27 fields. 3,100 positions across 34 journals. 2,717 editors. 33.3% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 27 (above avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
1,471
Female
734
Unknown
512

33.3% female · 66.7% male (of 2,205 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
18.7% 508
Italy
6.8% 186
United Kingdom
5.9% 161
China
4.9% 134
Germany
3.6% 97
Spain
3.5% 94
South Korea
3.4% 93
Brazil
3.0% 81
Japan
2.9% 78
Canada
2.2% 59

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).

0.768
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.
0.248
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 16–40 yr (spread 24 yr), mean 30.2 yr, n = 1,597. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.