Fig. 2: Distribution of contributing authors and editors of npj Ocean Sustainability per country and gender.

a Number of contributing authors of papers accepted for publication until the end of August 2023, per country of affiliation (countries from the Global South are highlighted with an asterisk and darker colour tone). b Number of journal editors per country of affiliation. c Total number of contributing authors and editors per country. d Gender distribution of contributing authors and editors. Data on gender was inferred from information available online; when information was not available (such as references to ‘she/her/he/his’) in credible pages data was not included. e Total number of submissions to npj Ocean Sustainability from September 2021 (when the journal started welcoming submissions) to the end of August 2023; this 24-month period was divided into semesters for visualisation purposes: 1st semester (September 2021–February 2022), 2nd (March 2022–August 2022), 3rd (September 2022–February 2023), 4th (March 2023–August 2023).