SCIRP

#17 publisher

246 journals covered

6,270
Positions
5,849
Editors
246
Journals
115
Countries
23.2
Mean h-index
98%
Open access

SCIRP ranks #17 among 48 publishers. 6,270 positions across 246 journals. 5,849 editors. 19.5% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 23.2 (above avg 22.5). 98% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 76.5% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 19.5% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
3,604
Female
873
Unknown
1,372

19.5% female · 80.5% male (of 4,477 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.

Top countries

United States
24.4% 1,430
China
8.3% 486
India
4.2% 247
Italy
4.1% 237
Canada
3.0% 178
Egypt
2.6% 153
Spain
2.5% 148
United Kingdom
2.3% 136
Türkiye
2.3% 135
South Korea
2.3% 132

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).

0.679
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.
0.235
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 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.
28 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per unique editor. IQR 18–39 yr (spread 21 yr), mean 30.1 yr, n = 3,509. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.