JohnBenjamins

#28 publisher

87 journals covered

2,502
Positions
2,243
Editors
87
Journals
75
Countries
19.3
Mean h-index
0%
Open access

JohnBenjamins ranks #28 among 48 publishers. 2,502 positions across 87 journals. 2,243 editors. 49.9% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 19.3 (below avg 22.7). 0% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
921
Female
916
Androgynous
66
Unknown
340

49.9% female · 50.1% male (of 1,837 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
15.9% 357
United Kingdom
8.7% 196
Germany
4.9% 109
Australia
3.9% 88
China
3.9% 87
Spain
3.7% 84
Belgium
3.7% 83
Canada
3.4% 76
Italy
2.9% 65
The Netherlands
2.5% 57

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).

0.737
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.
0.759
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.
0.111
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.
30 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 21–44 yr (spread 23 yr), mean 35 yr, n = 1,863. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.