Gender representation on environmental sciences editorial boards

Gender representation in science has been extensively investigated by scientists from different disciplines and loca-tions. Men continue to publish, collaborate, and obtain more citations than women. We investigated the relationship between Editor-in-Chief (EiC) and Editorial Boards' (EB) gender representation and the impact factor (IF) of environ-mental science journals (ESJ). We analyzed EiC/EB members of the top ESJ in the Web of Science databases that pub-lished at least 10,000 articles from their first publication until 2021. Binary gender information was assigned to 9153 members from 39 journals. IF ranged from 0.854 to 11.236 (x ($) over bar =5.05). Women represented 20 % of EiC positions and 23 % of EB members. Although, the majority of female EiC/EBs were represented in journals with an IF lower than the mean. No correlation was found between EiC's gender representation and the IF (p > 0.05). Regarding the hypothesis that female EiC was associated with EB gender equity, the link was not significant (p = 0.3). Our hypothesis of no as-sociation between gender proportion and IF was accepted for journals with IF>5 (p = 0.2) but rejected for IF.