Elsevier

#2 publisher

2,947 journals covered

161,608
Positions
137,529
Editors
2,947
Journals
153
Countries
25.1
Mean h-index
27%
Open access

Elsevier ranks #2 among 48 publishers. 161,608 positions across 2,947 journals. 137,529 editors. 33.2% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 25.1 (above avg 22.5). 27% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 75.8% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 33.2% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
69,661
Female
34,633
Unknown
33,235

33.2% female · 66.8% male (of 104,294 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
23.2% 31,926
China
9.7% 13,332
United Kingdom
5.6% 7,739
Italy
3.0% 4,097
Canada
2.9% 3,977
Australia
2.9% 3,921
Germany
2.8% 3,849
Spain
2.5% 3,473
France
2.4% 3,335
Japan
2.3% 3,108

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).

0.588
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.
0.739
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.
0.345
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 15–38 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 29.7 yr, n = 74,332. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.