Elsevier

#2 publisher

2,947 journals covered

161,608
Positions
138,412
Editors
2,947
Journals
151
Countries
25.5
Mean h-index
27%
Open access

Elsevier ranks #2 among 48 publishers. 161,608 positions across 2,947 journals. 138,412 editors. 33.6% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 25.5 (above avg 22.7). 27% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 69.3% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 33.6% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
59,021
Female
29,863
Androgynous
7,081
Unknown
42,447

33.6% female · 66.4% male (of 88,884 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
19.3% 26,703
China
7.6% 10,488
United Kingdom
5.0% 6,894
Italy
2.6% 3,661
Canada
2.6% 3,535
Australia
2.5% 3,492
Germany
2.3% 3,182
Spain
2.0% 2,763
France
2.0% 2,732
Japan
1.9% 2,622

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).

0.594
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.
0.811
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.
0.308
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 15–39 yr (spread 24 yr), mean 30 yr, n = 74,409. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.