The first week of medical interruptions was not too bad: Despite losing a chunk of each weekday, side-effects haven’t set in yet (they say 2-3 weeks out). This coming week will have more disruptions (one afternoon shot)–but I see one very large publisher coming up that may (or may not) be easy to handle. So, well, this week was not quite as productive as last, but not bad.
Before the counts, a reminder: I could really use feedback about whether/what to do with countries, and specifically whether a Diamond OA book makes sense. See https://walt.lishost.org/2023/02/goa8-new-direction-on-countries/.
So: 1,200 more journals checked.
The overall counts at this point are 7,500 journals checked, of which 6,604 published 599,507 articles in 2022 and 6,955 published 566,675 articles in 2021.
- Fee versus diamond/no-fee: 2,783 journals with fees, 4,717 without.
- New vs. continuing: 958 newly-added, 6,542cluding all of the “x”status below).
- Status code:
6,679 “a”–clean.
165 “bi”– inactive (no articles since at least 2020).
35 “bx”–done but at a different URL.
51″xd”–defunct, no articles since at least 2016.
106 “xm”–malware (but not last year).
14 “xn”–not an OA journal (including those removed this year but before I get to them).
309 “xx”–unreachable or unworkable. (Last week’s number was a typo.)
And the two oddities:
117 “xm2”–malware,also malware last year
24 “xx2”–unreachable or unworkable, as was true last year. - Ease of article counting articles:
“d” 4,132: easiest, taken directly from DOAJ (sometimes with 2022 count modified)
“w”541: easy, journal website provides direct numbers at either volume or issue number
“f” 1,999: middling; numbers calculated using Find function for constants (e.g. “doi.” or “pdf”)
“c” 291: slowest; articles counted manually…including one charmer that only shows dates when you open PDFs, preferring “about x months ago.” Arggh…One way to promote open source software, I guess!
