Members of editorial boards play the role of gatekeepers of science because. This paper analyses the national distribution of editorial boards members of economics journal, their affiliation, and their gender. It studies also the interlocking editorship network generated by the presence of a same person on the editorial board of more than one journal. The analysis is based on a unique database comprising all the 1,516 journals indexed in the database EconLit with an active editorial board in 2019. For each journal, we manually collected the names of the board members along with their affiliation, obtaining a database containing more than 44,000 members from more than 6,000 institutions and 142 countries. These data allow to investigate the phenomenon of gatekeeping in contemporary economics on an unprecedented large scale. The obtained results highlight some common issues concerning the editorial gatekeeping, leading to the conclusion that in Economics the academic publishing environment is governed by an \'elite composed mainly of men affiliated with United States \'elite universities. Homophily in terms of geographic, institutional and gender distribution is higher in the most prestigious journal and among Editors-in-Chief. Finally, it appears that `strategic decisions' in the selection of board members reproduce this homophily.

翻译：编辑委员会成员在科学中扮演着守门人的角色。本文分析了经济学期刊编委会成员的国家分布、所属机构及其性别构成，并研究了由同一人同时担任多份期刊编委会成员所生成的交叉编辑网络。该分析基于一个独特数据库，涵盖了2019年所有拥有活跃编委会的1,516种EconLit索引期刊。针对每种期刊，我们手动收集了编委会成员的姓名及其所属机构，最终构建了一个包含来自142个国家、6000多个机构的超过44,000名成员的数据库。这些数据使我们能够以前所未有的规模调查当代经济学中的守门现象。研究结果凸显了关于编辑守门的一些共性问题，并得出结论：经济学学术出版环境由主要来自美国精英大学的男性精英所主导。在最具声望的期刊及主编群体中，地理、机构及性别分布的同质性更高。最后，编委会成员遴选中的“战略决策”似乎进一步强化了这种同质性。