IGIGlobal

#14 publisher

169 journals covered

9,679
Positions
7,246
Editors
169
Journals
116
Countries
15.5
Mean h-index
36%
Open access

IGIGlobal ranks #14 among 48 publishers. 9,679 positions across 169 journals. 7,246 editors. 30.5% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 15.5 (below avg 22.5). 36% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
4,113
Female
1,803
Unknown
1,330

30.5% female · 69.5% male (of 5,916 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
17.3% 1,250
India
8.4% 607
China
6.7% 486
United Kingdom
4.1% 297
Italy
3.1% 224
Australia
2.7% 197
Portugal
2.4% 171
Spain
2.1% 153
Canada
1.8% 134
Greece
1.7% 121

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).

0.722
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.
0.728
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.
0.125
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.
21 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 13–31 yr (spread 18 yr), mean 24.5 yr, n = 5,309. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.