Veterinary

#27 of 27

Editorial board composition

648
Positions
636
Editors
19
Journals
42
Countries
21.3
Mean h-index

Veterinary ranks #27 among 27 fields. 648 positions across 19 journals. 636 editors. 41.7% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 21.3 (below avg 22.5).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 76.9% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 41.7% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
285
Female
204
Unknown
147

41.7% female · 58.3% male (of 489 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% 84
United Kingdom
6.8% 43
Italy
4.7% 30
Australia
3.0% 19
Brazil
1.9% 12
The Netherlands
1.7% 11
Germany
1.7% 11
Spain
1.7% 11
Canada
1.4% 9
China
1.3% 8

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.
0.419
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 13.8–46 yr (spread 32.2 yr), mean 32.7 yr, n = 208. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.