Royal Society
#33 publisher11 journals covered
Royal Society ranks #33 among 48 publishers. 1,059 positions across 11 journals. 1,059 editors. 39.5% female (above avg 33%). Mean h-index: 20.6 (below avg 22.5). 37% open access.
Gender distribution
39.5% female · 60.5% male (of 977 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.
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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).
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.