BenthamScience

#13 publisher

191 journals covered

9,738
Positions
8,575
Editors
191
Journals
109
Countries
32.5
Mean h-index
8%
Open access

BenthamScience ranks #13 among 48 publishers. 9,738 positions across 191 journals. 8,575 editors. 23.3% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 32.5 (above avg 22.5). 8% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 79.2% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 23.3% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
5,211
Female
1,581
Unknown
1,783

23.3% female · 76.7% male (of 6,792 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

China
16.2% 1,391
United States
12.2% 1,045
India
10.0% 861
Italy
9.3% 798
Türkiye
2.3% 200
Iran
2.1% 184
Brazil
1.9% 167
Australia
1.7% 145
Spain
1.7% 144
United Kingdom
1.7% 143

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).

0.660
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.
0.689
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.
0.297
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 19–40 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 31.2 yr, n = 7,183. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.