BenthamScience

#13 publisher

191 journals covered

9,738
Positions
8,579
Editors
191
Journals
107
Countries
33
Mean h-index
9%
Open access

BenthamScience ranks #13 among 48 publishers. 9,738 positions across 191 journals. 8,579 editors. 25.1% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 33 (above avg 22.7). 9% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 64.4% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 25.1% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
3,736
Female
1,250
Androgynous
537
Unknown
3,056

25.1% female · 74.9% male (of 4,986 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

China
12.5% 1,072
Italy
8.8% 755
United States
8.7% 750
India
8.1% 699
Türkiye
2.2% 189
Brazil
1.8% 152
Iran
1.6% 139
Spain
1.5% 132
United Kingdom
1.5% 129
Australia
1.4% 122

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).

0.675
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.
0.775
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.
0.263
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 19–40 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 31.6 yr, n = 6,948. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.