ASM

#27 publisher

16 journals covered

2,508
Positions
2,435
Editors
16
Journals
56
Countries
26.7
Mean h-index
88%
Open access

ASM ranks #27 among 48 publishers. 2,508 positions across 16 journals. 2,435 editors. 41.0% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 26.7 (above avg 22.7). 88% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
1,126
Female
782
Androgynous
96
Unknown
431

41.0% female · 59.0% male (of 1,908 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
17.6% 428
China
2.5% 61
Canada
1.5% 37
United Kingdom
1.1% 27
Germany
1.0% 25
India
0.9% 21
Italy
0.8% 20
Australia
0.7% 16
France
0.6% 15
Spain
0.4% 10

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).

0.552
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.
0.438
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.
0.330
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.
25 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 17–36 yr (spread 19 yr), mean 28.6 yr, n = 645. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.