APA

#16 publisher

86 journals covered

7,099
Positions
6,422
Editors
86
Journals
62
Countries
22.8
Mean h-index
0%
Open access

APA ranks #16 among 48 publishers. 7,099 positions across 86 journals. 6,422 editors. 50.5% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 22.8 (above avg 22.5). 0% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
2,932
Female
2,992
Unknown
498

50.5% female · 49.5% male (of 5,924 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
62.8% 4,032
Canada
6.2% 395
United Kingdom
3.4% 219
Australia
2.5% 158
Germany
2.3% 145
The Netherlands
1.5% 94
Israel
0.9% 59
China
0.8% 53
Switzerland
0.8% 51
Singapore
0.6% 39

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).

0.354
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.
0.699
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.
0.140
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 14–39 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 29.1 yr, n = 4,139. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.