Inderscience

#9 publisher

421 journals covered

15,259
Positions
12,678
Editors
421
Journals
122
Countries
20.2
Mean h-index
12%
Open access

Inderscience ranks #9 among 48 publishers. 15,259 positions across 421 journals. 12,678 editors. 20.9% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 20.2 (below avg 22.5). 12% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
8,098
Female
2,134
Unknown
2,446

20.9% female · 79.1% male (of 10,232 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
15.8% 1,997
United Kingdom
7.0% 885
China
6.0% 763
Italy
3.8% 488
India
3.5% 442
Canada
3.1% 392
Australia
3.0% 386
Japan
2.3% 291
Spain
1.8% 231
Germany
1.8% 226

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).

0.710
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.
0.688
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.
0.141
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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 18–40 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 31.6 yr, n = 8,079. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.