Karger

#22 publisher

82 journals covered

3,596
Positions
3,486
Editors
82
Journals
68
Countries
35.8
Mean h-index
25%
Open access

Karger ranks #22 among 48 publishers. 3,596 positions across 82 journals. 3,486 editors. 29.9% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 35.8 (above avg 22.7). 25% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
2,039
Female
868
Androgynous
71
Unknown
508

29.9% female · 70.1% male (of 2,907 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
13.6% 474
Germany
9.4% 329
Japan
4.4% 154
Italy
4.1% 143
United Kingdom
3.2% 110
Switzerland
2.7% 94
Australia
2.3% 79
Canada
2.3% 79
Portugal
2.0% 69
China
2.0% 69

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).

0.733
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.
0.584
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.
0.465
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.
33 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 20–46 yr (spread 26 yr), mean 35.1 yr, n = 2,021. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.