Who edits science?

Explore the composition of editorial boards across 15,168 academic journals and 48 publishers. The most comprehensive open dataset of scholarly editorial positions.

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Unique editors
922,097 total positions
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Journals
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Publishers
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Countries
Beijing: 10,164 editors London: 6,228 editors New York: 5,776 editors Shanghai: 5,087 editors Seoul: 5,040 editors Melbourne: 4,531 editors Tokyo: 4,304 editors Sydney: 4,230 editors Rome: 3,779 editors Boston: 3,494 editors Milan: 3,152 editors Toronto: 3,011 editors Madrid: 2,924 editors Philadelphia: 2,904 editors Paris: 2,901 editors Nanjing: 2,889 editors Hong Kong: 2,775 editors Chicago: 2,582 editors Houston: 2,417 editors Guangzhou: 2,361 editors Beijing: 10,164 editors London: 6,228 editors New York: 5,776 editors Shanghai: 5,087 editors Seoul: 5,040 editors Melbourne: 4,531 editors Tokyo: 4,304 editors Sydney: 4,230 editors Rome: 3,779 editors Boston: 3,494 editors Milan: 3,152 editors Toronto: 3,011 editors Madrid: 2,924 editors Philadelphia: 2,904 editors Paris: 2,901 editors Nanjing: 2,889 editors Hong Kong: 2,775 editors Chicago: 2,582 editors Houston: 2,417 editors Guangzhou: 2,361 editors

Dataset at a glance

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Mean h-index
Median: 18 · Max: 283
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Have ORCID
250,217 out of 744,842 unique editors
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Female editors
201,191 out of 610,458 with resolved gender
82% of editors gender-classified via WGND 2.0
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Editors-in-Chief
Across 15,168 journals

Top countries by unique editors

United States
17% 130,329
China
6% 42,534
United Kingdom
5% 37,392
Italy
4% 28,619
Germany
2% 17,635
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Top scientific fields by unique editors

Medicine
27% 198,333
Engineering
11% 80,223
Social Sciences
10% 76,402
Multidisciplinary
6% 43,108
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
6% 42,780
Business, Management and Accounting
5% 35,616
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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

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What's in the dataset

77 columns

Name, role, affiliation, ORCID, gender (WGND 2.0 country-aware), bibliometrics, institution, geolocation

Journal quality

PubMed, Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, COPE indexing + NPI level + OpenAlex citedness quartile (per field)

Bibliometrics

h-index, publications, citations, academic age from OpenAlex

Board diversity

Gender balance, country concentration (HHI), institution count per board