SpringerNature

#1 publisher

2,598 journals covered

167,399
Positions
153,578
Editors
2,598
Journals
169
Countries
24
Mean h-index
32%
Open access

SpringerNature ranks #1 among 48 publishers. 167,399 positions across 2,598 journals. 153,578 editors. 28.6% female (below avg 33.7%). Mean h-index: 24 (above avg 22.7). 32% open access.

Gender distribution

Gender-inference coverage: 71.8% of editors here have an inferred gender — the 28.6% figure understates uncertainty for the unclassified remainder.

Male
72,908
Female
29,221
Androgynous
8,129
Unknown
43,320

28.6% female · 71.4% male (of 102,129 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
16.9% 25,958
China
9.5% 14,518
India
4.7% 7,171
Italy
4.4% 6,805
Germany
4.4% 6,696
United Kingdom
4.2% 6,474
Japan
3.7% 5,652
South Korea
2.6% 3,928
Canada
2.4% 3,644
Australia
2.3% 3,576

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).

0.625
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.
0.798
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.
0.308
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 15–39 yr (spread 24 yr), mean 29.8 yr, n = 99,897. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.