IOP

#20 publisher

89 journals covered

3,674
Positions
3,179
Editors
89
Journals
68
Countries
27.4
Mean h-index
29%
Open access

IOP ranks #20 among 48 publishers. 3,674 positions across 89 journals. 3,179 editors. 28.9% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 27.4 (above avg 22.7). 29% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 72% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 28.9% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
1,371
Female
556
Androgynous
361
Unknown
891

28.9% female · 71.1% male (of 1,927 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
13.2% 419
China
13.1% 416
United Kingdom
6.1% 193
Japan
4.1% 131
Germany
3.1% 97
India
2.4% 77
Italy
2.1% 66
Canada
2.0% 63
South Korea
2.0% 62
Australia
1.7% 55

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).

0.700
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.
0.753
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.
0.340
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 15–37 yr (spread 22 yr), mean 28.4 yr, n = 1,781. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.