Emerald

#10 publisher

250 journals covered

12,944
Positions
11,583
Editors
250
Journals
115
Countries
17.8
Mean h-index
11%
Open access

Emerald ranks #10 among 48 publishers. 12,944 positions across 250 journals. 11,583 editors. 34.8% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 17.8 (below avg 22.7). 11% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 75.3% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 34.8% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
5,317
Female
2,837
Androgynous
565
Unknown
2,864

34.8% female · 65.2% male (of 8,154 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
14.4% 1,670
United Kingdom
13.8% 1,596
China
6.1% 707
Australia
5.1% 591
Italy
3.1% 358
India
2.7% 309
Canada
2.6% 304
Spain
1.6% 184
France
1.5% 177
Hong Kong
1.5% 170

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).

0.688
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.
0.649
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.
0.085
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.
23 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 14–35 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 27.4 yr, n = 7,632. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.