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

Open Editors Plus is a comprehensive, openly licensed dataset of editorial board positions across 15,216 academic journals from 48 publishers. It contains 922,857 records covering 619,972 unique editors in 189 countries. Each record is enriched with:- Institutional affiliation canonicalized via ROR (Research Organization Registry)- Geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude)- Gender inference (gender-guesser library, with confidence scores)- Bibliometric indicators (h-index, publications, citations, academic age) from OpenAlex- Journal classification (domain, field, subfield, topic) from OpenAlex- Journal indexing status (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, COPE)- Norwegian Publishing Indicator (NPI) level- Board-level diversity metrics (gender balance, geographic concentration, institutional diversity) The dataset extends the original Open Editors project (Nishikawa-Pacher et al., 2022) with 2x the journal coverage and 55+ additional enrichment columns. Files included:- openeditors_plus_2026.csv — Full dataset (UTF-8, 65 columns)- openeditors_plus_2026.parquet — Same data in compressed columnar format- codebook.json — a machine-readable codebook documenting all 66 columns with names, types, descriptions and provenance to ensure FAIT interoperability License: CC0 1.0 (public domain)Website: https://openeditors-plus.orgCode: https://github.com/BasileChretien/Open_editor_plus