Open Editors Plus 2026: Editorial Board Composition of 15,000+ Academic Journals

Open Editors Plus v6.1.0 is a comprehensive, openly licensed dataset of editorial board positions across 15,165 academic journals from 48 publishers. It contains 921,960 records covering 731,244 unique editors in 194 countries. Each record is enriched with: Institutional affiliation canonicalized via ROR (Research Organization Registry), with country, city, organization type, geographic coordinates and the organizations above it in ROR (parents and all ancestors) Gender inference from the country-aware World Gender Name Dictionary 2.0 (WGND 2.0), using the ROR-resolved country to disambiguate names, with a 0.75 confidence floor; the weight, sample size and provenance are retained per record The editorial role, standardized into ten categories, with a flag for positions held by former, honorary or emeritus editors, the number of current chief editors of each board, and a flag for boards whose chief-editor labels look carried over Bibliometric indicators (h-index, works count, citations, academic age) from OpenAlex Journal identifiers: ISSN-L and OpenAlex source checked against each journal's title and publisher, and the print and electronic ISSN from the NLM Catalog, DOAJ and Crossref; journal classification (domain, field, subfield, topic) from the journal's own OpenAlex articles, with a Multidisciplinary label from the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, and an impact quartile computed within each field Journal indexing status (PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, COPE) Norwegian Publishing Indicator (NPI) level Board-level diversity metrics (gender balance, geographic concentration, institutional diversity) and multi-board indicators, including the published editor_key so the deduplication behind the 731,244 figure is directly reproducible The dataset extends the original Open Editors project (Nishikawa-Pacher, Heck & Schoch, 2023, Research Evaluation 32(2), 228–243) with roughly twice the journal coverage and substantially more enrichment. What changed in v6.1.0. A corrected release that repairs ROR matches and adds four columns (87 in all). The new organization matches of the v6.0.0 ROR refresh were audited: every match sharing fewer than half of its organization's name words and every match flagged by screens was read by hand, and the error rate of the rest was estimated from a sample. 7,926 curated rules correct wrong matches, give research institutes named with their parent their own record, and clear matches to strings that name no organization in ROR: 14,359 records change organization (13,433 move, 777 lose their match, 149 gain one). Records on an inactive ROR record move to its successor (408), and organization names and countries follow ROR's current records. New columns: ror_parent_ids, ror_parent_names, ror_ancestor_ids and ror_ancestor_names (157,933 records have a parent in ROR), so that an editor can be found under every organization above their own. Gender changes on 57 records, and unique editors go from 731,230 to 731,244. data_version is 2026.7. Analyses by organization or country should be re-run. What changed in v6.0.0. A corrected release with six new columns (83 in all). The role rule had missed plural headings such as "Editors-in-Chief", so thousands of chief editors were labelled plain editors in every release since v2.7.0; the corrected rule, with new rules for advisory, handling, staff and book-review roles, changes role_std on 105,765 records, and chief editors go from 17,239 to 19,409. New columns: role_is_former (10,533 records whose heading names a former, honorary or emeritus editor), board_eic_count and board_roles_suspect (56 journals whose chief-editor labels look carried over), and issn_print, issn_electronic and issn_type_source (14,263 journals). The affiliations without an organization were matched to ROR again: 120,494 records gain one, so 81.1% of records carry an organization (68.1% before) and the dataset covers 194 countries. Gender is recomputed where the country changed or the stored value was stale (5,513 records change gender), and editors listed at one institution under several affiliation texts are now one editor (731,230 unique editors; 744,797 before). 45 more journals take an audited ISSN-L, and one is corrected again. data_version was 2026.6. Full release notes are given under Series information below. Files included: openeditors_plus_2026.csv — full dataset (UTF-8, 87 columns, 905 MB) openeditors_plus_2026.parquet — the same data in compressed columnar format (99 MB) codebook.json — a machine-readable codebook documenting all 87 columns with names, types, descriptions and provenance, to support FAIR interoperability Versioning. This deposit is version 6.1.0. The concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19468382 always resolves to the latest version; cite this record's version DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23718040 to refer to this exact snapshot. The paper describing the dataset (Quantitative Science Studies) uses v3.0.0, 10.5281/zenodo.21620278. Personal data. The records name real people and include an inferred gender attribute. CC0 waives copyright and database rights only; it does not waive the data-protection rights of the people described, and anyone reusing the records remains responsible under the data-protection law that applies to them, in particular the EU GDPR. How the data are processed is set out at openeditors-plus.org/privacy; listed editors can have their record corrected or removed through openeditors-plus.org/corrections or by writing to [e-mail]. License: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Website: https://openeditors-plus.orgCode: the enrichment and analysis code is available from the author on reasonable request.