Physics and Astronomy
#14 of 26Editorial board composition
Physics and Astronomy ranks #14 among 26 fields. 15,771 positions across 264 journals. 14,596 editors. 23.4% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 24.9 (above avg 22.7).
Gender distribution
Gender-inference coverage: 73.1% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 23.4% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.
23.4% female · 76.6% male (of 9,809 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.
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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).
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.