Brill

#23 publisher

142 journals covered

3,410
Positions
3,343
Editors
142
Journals
88
Countries
11.1
Mean h-index
9%
Open access

Brill ranks #23 among 48 publishers. 3,410 positions across 142 journals. 3,343 editors. 34.8% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 11.1 (below avg 22.5). 9% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
1,882
Female
1,005
Unknown
456

34.8% female · 65.2% male (of 2,887 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
16.9% 564
United Kingdom
7.8% 261
Germany
4.2% 142
The Netherlands
3.4% 115
China
3.2% 106
France
2.8% 94
Italy
2.8% 92
Australia
2.5% 82
Canada
2.2% 75
Hong Kong
1.9% 65

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).

0.724
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.
0.568
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.
0.180
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 17–42 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 32.8 yr, n = 1,839. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.