Veterinary

#26 of 26

Editorial board composition

929
Positions
907
Editors
24
Journals
48
Countries
19.9
Mean h-index

Veterinary ranks #26 among 26 fields. 929 positions across 24 journals. 907 editors. 41.4% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 19.9 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Male
429
Female
303
Unknown
175

41.4% female · 58.6% male (of 732 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
13.2% 120
United Kingdom
6.6% 60
Italy
5.5% 50
Australia
3.2% 29
Brazil
2.5% 23
Spain
2.0% 18
Canada
1.7% 15
China
1.5% 14
The Netherlands
1.4% 13
Germany
1.2% 11

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).

0.765
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.
0.340
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.
27 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 13–45 yr (spread 32 yr), mean 31.3 yr, n = 348. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.