ACS

#18 publisher

90 journals covered

6,167
Positions
4,788
Editors
90
Journals
65
Countries
40.8
Mean h-index
14%
Open access

ACS ranks #18 among 48 publishers. 6,167 positions across 90 journals. 4,788 editors. 41.8% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 40.8 (above avg 22.7). 14% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 69.4% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 41.8% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
1,680
Female
1,206
Androgynous
435
Unknown
1,467

41.8% female · 58.2% male (of 2,886 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
28.7% 1,374
China
13.5% 648
India
4.3% 205
Germany
3.4% 163
United Kingdom
3.1% 148
Japan
2.9% 140
Canada
2.8% 132
South Korea
2.7% 127
Australia
2.1% 101
Switzerland
1.6% 75

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).

0.618
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.
0.818
Pielou's J over OpenAlex scientific fields. High values mean this entity's editors span many disciplines (a broad multidisciplinary footprint); low values mean they cluster in one field. Especially informative for institution pages, where the country and org_type Shannons are trivially zero.
0.270
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 17–38 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 30.1 yr, n = 3,312. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.