All things considered, this week went better than it might have. Fatigue slowed me down, the change in schedule didn’t help–and during Tuesday’s windstorm we lost power for four hours, exactly during the time I’d normally be working on the project. (Daily count: 40, all done in the pre-medical-visit period.) But we were only out four hours; there are thousands of PG&E customers who still don’t have power.
This coming week may be slow as well, but then I get back around two hours a day…and, maybe, slowly, energy.
Before the counts, yet another reminder: I need 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-couIntries/. At the moment I’m inclined to think Diamond Open Access 2022: The Landscape of No-Fee OA (current working title) may be worthwhile (prob. a fairly hefty book, free PDF as always, production-priced paperback), but I could sure use some additional feedback/support for this entirely optional (and unpaid) extra.
The numbers
1,000 more journals checked.
The overall counts at this point:
13,200 journals checked, of which
11,673 published 1,221,244 articles in 2022 and
12,219 published 1,119,815 articles in 2021.
The rest of the numbers:
- Fee versus diamond/no-fee: 4,784 journals with fees, 8,416 without.
- New vs. continuing: 1,642 newly-added, 11,558 continuing (including all of the “x”status below).
- Status code:
11,745 “a”–clean.
333 “bi”– inactive (no articles since at least 2020).
57 “bx”–done but at a different URL.
86 “xd”–defunct, no articles since at least 2016.
209 “xm”–malware (but not last year).
28 “xn”–not an OA journal (including those removed this year but before I got to them).
509 “xx”–unreachable or unworkable.
And the two oddities:
194 “xm2”–malware,also malware last year
39 “xx2”–unreachable or unworkable, as was true last year. - Ease of article counting:
“d” 7,403: easiest, taken directly from DOAJ (sometimes with 2022 count modified)
“w” 3,546: easy, journal website provides direct numbers at either volume or issue number
“f” 3,431: middling; numbers calculated using Find function for constants (e.g. “doi.” or “pdf”)
“c” 483: slowest; articles counted manually.