SpringerNature

#1 publisher

2,596 journals covered

167,196
Positions
152,368
Editors
2,596
Journals
174
Countries
23.7
Mean h-index
32%
Open access

SpringerNature ranks #1 among 48 publishers. 167,196 positions across 2,596 journals. 152,368 editors. 27.9% female (below avg 33%). Mean h-index: 23.7 (above avg 22.5). 32% open access.

Gender distribution

Male
89,513
Female
34,621
Unknown
28,234

27.9% female · 72.1% male (of 124,134 resolved; global avg 33%)

Each editor is 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
20.9% 31,810
China
11.5% 17,499
India
5.7% 8,679
Germany
5.6% 8,488
Italy
5.4% 8,288
United Kingdom
5.0% 7,575
Japan
4.1% 6,256
Australia
2.7% 4,132
South Korea
2.7% 4,129
Canada
2.6% 3,891

Board diversity

Per-editor diversity indicators. Each editor is counted once at this entity (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).

0.617
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.
0.797
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.
0.353
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 81% 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.
26 yr
Median years since first OpenAlex-indexed publication, per editor. IQR 15–39 yr (spread 24 yr), mean 29.5 yr, n = 99,705. A low median with a small IQR indicates a board clustered in one career stage; a large IQR signals generational mix.