SAGE

#5 publisher

1,441 journals covered

76,006
Positions
69,337
Editors
1,441
Journals
146
Countries
19.1
Mean h-index
20%
Open access

SAGE ranks #5 among 48 publishers. 76,006 positions across 1,441 journals. 69,337 editors. 39.9% female (above avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 19.1 (below avg 22.7). 20% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
32,608
Female
21,604
Androgynous
1,977
Unknown
13,148

39.9% female · 60.1% male (of 54,212 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
28.2% 19,533
United Kingdom
7.8% 5,420
Canada
3.3% 2,304
Australia
3.2% 2,246
India
2.6% 1,769
China
2.5% 1,740
Italy
2.2% 1,513
Germany
1.6% 1,131
The Netherlands
1.3% 894
Japan
1.1% 766

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).

0.541
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.
0.703
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.
0.246
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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 15–41 yr (spread 26 yr), mean 31.1 yr, n = 39,408. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.