JohnBenjamins

#28 publisher

87 journals covered

2,502
Positions
2,236
Editors
87
Journals
75
Countries
19.1
Mean h-index
0%
Open access

JohnBenjamins ranks #28 among 48 publishers. 2,502 positions across 87 journals. 2,236 editors. 49.4% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 19.1 (below avg 22.5). 0% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
1,014
Female
991
Unknown
231

49.4% female · 50.6% male (of 2,005 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
17.2% 384
United Kingdom
9.3% 208
Germany
5.1% 115
Australia
4.3% 97
China
4.1% 91
Spain
3.9% 88
Belgium
3.9% 88
Canada
3.5% 79
Italy
3.0% 66
The Netherlands
2.8% 63

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.
0.655
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.
0.114
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.
30 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 20.5–44 yr (spread 23.5 yr), mean 34.9 yr, n = 1,875. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.