SCIRP

#17 publisher

246 journals covered

6,270
Positions
5,867
Editors
246
Journals
112
Countries
23.8
Mean h-index
89%
Open access

SCIRP ranks #17 among 48 publishers. 6,270 positions across 246 journals. 5,867 editors. 19.1% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 23.8 (above avg 22.7). 89% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 64.7% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 19.1% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
2,783
Female
659
Androgynous
355
Unknown
2,070

19.1% female · 80.9% male (of 3,442 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
19.6% 1,148
China
7.4% 433
India
3.7% 218
Italy
3.6% 211
Canada
3.0% 177
Egypt
2.4% 140
Spain
2.4% 140
Türkiye
2.2% 132
United Kingdom
2.1% 126
South Korea
2.1% 124

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).

0.692
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.
0.823
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.
0.243
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 19–39 yr (spread 20 yr), mean 30.5 yr, n = 3,511. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.