Emerald

#10 publisher

250 journals covered

12,944
Positions
11,573
Editors
250
Journals
119
Countries
17.7
Mean h-index
11%
Open access

Emerald ranks #10 among 48 publishers. 12,944 positions across 250 journals. 11,573 editors. 34.6% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 17.7 (below avg 22.5). 11% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
6,375
Female
3,377
Unknown
1,821

34.6% female · 65.4% male (of 9,752 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
16.7% 1,931
United Kingdom
14.6% 1,692
China
6.6% 762
Australia
5.7% 657
Italy
3.4% 396
India
3.1% 354
Canada
2.7% 310
Hong Kong
1.8% 214
France
1.7% 202
Spain
1.7% 197

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).

0.684
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.
0.634
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.
0.087
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.
23 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–35 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 27.2 yr, n = 7,629. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.