Brill

#23 publisher

142 journals covered

3,410
Positions
3,347
Editors
142
Journals
86
Countries
11.2
Mean h-index
11%
Open access

Brill ranks #23 among 48 publishers. 3,410 positions across 142 journals. 3,347 editors. 35.2% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 11.2 (below avg 22.7). 11% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
1,697
Female
920
Androgynous
144
Unknown
586

35.2% female · 64.8% male (of 2,617 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
14.6% 487
United Kingdom
7.1% 236
Germany
3.7% 125
The Netherlands
3.3% 110
China
3.0% 99
Italy
2.7% 89
Australia
2.3% 76
Canada
2.2% 74
France
2.1% 71
Hong Kong
1.6% 53

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).

0.728
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.
0.548
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.
0.167
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 17–42 yr (spread 25 yr), mean 32.9 yr, n = 1,842. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.