Frontiers

#6 publisher

214 journals covered

71,375
Positions
61,821
Editors
214
Journals
151
Countries
26.6
Mean h-index
100%
Open access

Frontiers ranks #6 among 48 publishers. 71,375 positions across 214 journals. 61,821 editors. 30.0% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 26.6 (above avg 22.5). 100% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
37,096
Female
15,872
Unknown
8,853

30.0% female · 70.0% male (of 52,968 resolved; global avg 33%)

Each editor is 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% 14,341
Italy
13.0% 8,029
China
8.6% 5,334
United Kingdom
5.4% 3,332
Germany
4.0% 2,502
Spain
4.0% 2,449
Australia
3.0% 1,867
France
3.0% 1,859
Japan
2.9% 1,776
Canada
2.8% 1,715

Board diversity

Per-editor diversity indicators. Each editor is counted once at this entity (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).

0.614
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.
0.707
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.
0.405
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 81% 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 editor. IQR 16–37 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 28.5 yr, n = 37,999. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.