APS

#39 publisher

19 journals covered

799
Positions
777
Editors
19
Journals
39
Countries
25.5
Mean h-index
25%
Open access

APS ranks #39 among 48 publishers. 799 positions across 19 journals. 777 editors. 31.0% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 25.5 (above avg 22.7). 25% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
421
Female
189
Androgynous
36
Unknown
131

31.0% female · 69.0% male (of 610 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
33.7% 262
China
6.8% 53
Germany
6.2% 48
United Kingdom
3.5% 27
France
3.3% 26
Japan
2.7% 21
Switzerland
2.4% 19
Spain
2.3% 18
Canada
2.1% 16
India
2.1% 16

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).

0.656
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.
0.747
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.
0.542
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.
24 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–36 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 28 yr, n = 507. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.