Who edits science?
Explore the composition of editorial boards across 15,175 academic journals and 48 publishers. The most comprehensive open dataset of scholarly editorial positions.
620K+
Unique editors
922,466 total positions
15.2K
Journals
48
Publishers
189
Countries
Dataset at a glance
25.1
Mean h-index
Median: 20 · Max: 283
42%
Have ORCID
384,007 out of 922,466 records
31%
Female editors
212,677 out of 688,216 with known gender
17,312
Editors-in-Chief
Across 15,175 journals
Top countries by editorial positions
United States 166,825
18%
China 60,138
7%
United Kingdom 49,229
5%
Italy 43,977
5%
Australia 23,524
3%
Top scientific fields
Medicine 177,972
19%
Engineering 92,288
10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 82,600
9%
Social Sciences 81,244
9%
Business, Management and Accounting 44,870
5%
Psychology 40,969
4%
Cite this dataset
If you use Open Editors Plus in your research, please cite:
Chretien, B. (2026). Open Editors Plus 2026: Editorial Board Composition of 15,000+ Academic Journals. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19468382
What's in the dataset
55+ columns
Name, role, affiliation, ORCID, gender, bibliometrics, institution, geolocation
Journal quality
PubMed, Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, COPE indexing + NPI level + impact quartile
Bibliometrics
h-index, publications, citations, academic age from OpenAlex
Board diversity
Gender balance, country concentration (HHI), institution count per board