The daily interruptions start on Monday; next week should show much difference they’ll make. Meanwhile, yet another productive week. I’d thought of doing posts when certain milestones were reached, but that’s silly–and this was a big week for milestones:
- I’ve now done just over a third of the journals.
- There are already more 2022 articles in counted journals than there were in the entirety of the 2016 count.
- And that means more than half a million have been counted.
So: 1,300 more journals checked, The overall counts at this point are 6,300 journals checked, of which 5,546 published 538,460 articles in 2022 and 5,843 published 506,073 articles in 2021.
Some details–as always, about the full dataset to date, not this week’s portion.
- Fee versus diamond/no-fee: 2,471 journals with fees, 3,829 without.
- New vs. continuing: 808 newly-added, 5,492 continuing.
- Need rechecking: 858 will be rechecked (including all of the “x”status below).
- Status code:
5.629 “a”–clean.
141 “bi”– inactive (no articles since at least 2020).
31 “bx”–done but at a different URL.
40 “xd”–defunct, no articles since at least 2016.
87 “xm”–malware (but not last year).
11 “xn”–not an OA journal.
232 “xx”–unreachable or unworkable. (Last week’s number was a typo.)
And the two oddities:
109 “xm2”–malware,also malware last year
20 “xx2”–unreachable or unworkable, as was true last year. - Ease of article counting articles:
“d” 3,548: easiest, taken directly from DOAJ
“w”430: easy, journal website provides direct numbers at either volume or issue number
“f” 1,644: middling; numbers calculated using Find function for constants (e.g. “doi.” or “pdf”)
“c” 245: slowest; articles counted manually.
