Lancet

#34 publisher

27 journals covered

948
Positions
927
Editors
27
Journals
41
Countries
43
Mean h-index
48%
Open access

Lancet ranks #34 among 48 publishers. 948 positions across 27 journals. 927 editors. 59.6% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 43 (above avg 22.7). 48% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
305
Female
450
Androgynous
23
Unknown
149

59.6% female · 40.4% male (of 755 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
5.4% 50
United Kingdom
4.3% 40
Canada
1.7% 16
Australia
1.5% 14
China
1.1% 10
Spain
1.0% 9
South Africa
0.9% 8
Sweden
0.9% 8
Japan
0.6% 6

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).

0.782
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.
0.580
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.
0.537
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 13–43 yr (spread 30 yr), mean 30.7 yr, n = 201. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.