Physics and Astronomy
#16 of 27Editorial board composition
Physics and Astronomy ranks #16 among 27 fields. 13,423 positions across 267 journals. 12,059 editors. 20.0% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 24.7 (above avg 22.5).
Gender distribution
Gender-inference coverage: 79.6% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 20.0% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.
20.0% female · 80.0% male (of 9,598 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
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 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.