Abstract Editorial boards play a central role in shaping scholarly communication by influencing what research is published and how disciplinary boundaries are defined. Despite their importance, large‐scale, systematic evidence on their composition and structure remains limited. This study provides a comprehensive descriptive analysis of editorial boards across major scholarly publishers, with the aim of characterizing their organizational structure and the distribution of editorial positions. Using a corpus of over 810,000 editorial positions across more than 10,000 journals from 15 publishers, we examine board size and its relationship to journal output, develop a harmonized nine‐class ontology of editorial roles, and analyze gender representation, institutional sectors, and geographic distribution. We also benchmark coverage against the Open Editors dataset, a previously released resource on editorial board composition. The results reveal stratified editorial structures dominated by operational roles, a positive association between board size and journal throughput, and a strong concentration of editors in academic institutions. Women represent approximately one‐third of identified editors, and editorial presence is concentrated in the United States and Western Europe. This study provides large‐scale descriptive evidence on editorial board organization and establishes an empirical baseline for future research on editorial governance, diversity, and the distribution of influence in scholarly publishing.
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