Walt at Random

So far, 19,600 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 1,326,141; for 2023, 1,296,442. Of the 19,600 journals, 6,590 have fees and 13,010 don’t (diamond OA). 1,777 are newly-added and 17,823 are ongoing. 3,101 may need rechecking, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 450
Expired (xd): 227
Malware (xm): 921
Not OA (xn): 141–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 902.

So far, 18,200 journals have been checked (3,008 left to go). Total articles for 2024: 1,292,119; for 2023, 1,260,786. Of the 18,200 journals, 6,256 have fees and 11,944 don’t (diamond OA). 1,657 are newly-added and 16,433 are ongoing. 2,880 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 412
Expired (xd): 219
Malware (xm): 837–note the too-rapid increase here
Not OA (xn): 122–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 851.

Guesstimate: the first pass will be done right around the end of April–but the recheck is slower.

So far, 16,825 journals have been checked (4,383 left to go). Total articles for 2024: 1,256,246; for 2023, 1,222,809. Of the 16,825 journals, 5,832 have fees and 10,993 don’t (diamond OA). 1,582 are newly-added and 15,243 are ongoing. 2,448 will be rechecked (the extra 2 last week was a typo), including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 388
Expired (xd): 203
Malware (xm): 613
Not OA (xn): 105–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 738.

That xx number includes a surprising number of “grayed out” journals–a phenomenon new this year, where the journal home page is visible but covered with a light or dark gray overlay, and wholly nonfunctional. This is just bad HTML; using a different browser appears to clear it up, but it shouldn’t be happening at all. (There’s also one publisher–a commercial one–where, in Chrome but not in Firefox, journals appear without an overlay but are wholly unresponsive. For shame. Again, the recheck pass should clear these up, but they shouldn’t need clearing up.)

Guesstimate: the first pass will be done right around the end of April, give or take a week–but the recheck is slower.

So far, 15,500 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 1,221,491; for 2023, 1,184,642. Of the 15,500 journals, 5,806 have fees and 9,694 don’t (diamond OA). 1,536 are newly-added and 13,964 are ongoing. 2,2217 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 360
Expired (xd): 189
Malware (xm): 572 [last week was a typo]
Not OA (xn): 91–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 652

So far, 14,225 journals have been checked–just over two-thirds of the total. Total articles for 2024: 1,173,934; for 2023, 1,134,855. Of the 14,225 journals, 5,610 have fees and 8,615 don’t (diamond OA). 1,418 are newly-added and 12,807 are ongoing. 2,027 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 336
Expired (xd): 179
Malware (xm): 4524
Not OA (xn): 70–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 590

So far, 13,000 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 1,097,275; for 2023, 1,066,934. Of the 13,000 journals, 4,999 have fees and 8,001 don’t (diamond OA). 1,299 are newly-added and 11,701 are ongoing. 1,910 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 307
Expired (xd): 164
Malware (xm): 497
Not OA (xn): 55–note that this includes journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 551

So far, 11,750 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 1,040,405 (the million-article mark; for 2023, 1,007,306. Of the 11,750 journals, 4,589 have fees and 7.161 don’t (diamond OA). 1,172 are newly-added and 10,578 are ongoing. 1,784 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 274
Expired (xd): 145
Malware (xm): 473
Not OA (xn): 44–note that this includes journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 502

No new milestone other than the million-article mark.

So far, 9,400 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 847,494; for 2023, 841,819. Of these, 3,902 have fees, and 5,598 don’t (diamond OA). 952 are newly-added and 8,548 are ongoing. 1,425 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

• Inactive (bi): 217.
• Expired (xd): 111
• Malware (xm): 381
• Not OA (xn): 30–note that this includes journals dropped from DOAJ.
• Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 384

Another milestone of sorts: the 2024 article count is already higher than the total 2018 article count in the eighth study (Gold Open Access Journals 2017-2022), which was 835,434.

So far, 8.175 journals [CORRECTION: 8,175, not 6,175] have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 656,452; for 2023, 623,993. Of these, 3,232 have fees, and 4,943 don’t (diamond OA). 830 are newly-added and 7,345 are ongoing. 1,255 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

• Inactive (bi): 192.
• Expired (xd): 90
• Malware (xm): 324
• Not OA (xn): 23–note that this includes journals dropped from DOAJ.
• Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 322

Another milestone of sorts: the 2024 article count is already higher than the total 2016 article count in the seventh study (Gold Open Access Journals 2016-2021), which was 623,915.