Psychology

#7 of 27

Editorial board composition

43,214
Positions
37,967
Editors
711
Journals
125
Countries
20.1
Mean h-index

Psychology ranks #7 among 27 fields. 43,214 positions across 711 journals. 37,967 editors. 49.7% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 20.1 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
17,304
Female
17,065
Unknown
3,598

49.7% female · 50.3% male (of 34,369 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
38.5% 14,615
United Kingdom
6.0% 2,277
Canada
3.7% 1,389
Australia
3.3% 1,237
Germany
2.7% 1,031
Italy
2.6% 1,004
China
2.0% 752
The Netherlands
1.7% 632
Spain
1.6% 601
Japan
1.0% 362

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).

0.495
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.
0.180
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.
24 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–40 yr (spread 26 yr), mean 29.9 yr, n = 20,402. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.