Veterinary

#26 of 26

Editorial board composition

826
Positions
815
Editors
20
Journals
47
Countries
19.5
Mean h-index

Veterinary ranks #26 among 26 fields. 826 positions across 20 journals. 815 editors. 41.8% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 19.5 (below avg 22.7).

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 77.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 41.8% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
359
Female
258
Androgynous
12
Unknown
186

41.8% female · 58.2% male (of 617 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.

Top countries

United States
13.0% 106
United Kingdom
6.1% 50
Italy
5.6% 46
Australia
2.8% 23
Brazil
2.7% 22
Spain
2.1% 17
Canada
1.6% 13
China
1.5% 12
The Netherlands
1.3% 11
Germany
1.0% 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).

0.757
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.
0.320
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 15–46 yr (spread 31 yr), mean 32.4 yr, n = 295. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.