As anticipated, between other time requirements and some fatigue, this week was slower than last–but not as much slower as I’d anticipated, thanks to SAGE and Sciendo. Hard to say how next week will be, but the rest of Sciendo will get it off to a reasonable start.
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-countries/.
So: 1,100 more journals checked.
The overall counts at this point:
11,000 journals checked, of which
9,723 published 1,16,737 articles in 2022 and
10,198 published 1,013,608 articles in 2021.
The rest of the numbers:
- Fee versus diamond/no-fee: 4,077 journals with fees, 6,923 without.
- New vs. continuing: 1,308 newly-added, 9,612 continuing (including all of the “x”status below).
- Status code:
9,812 “a”–clean.
265 “bi”– inactive (no articles since at least 2020).
44 “bx”–done but at a different URL.
78 “xd”–defunct, no articles since at least 2016.
169 “xm”–malware (but not last year).
21 “xn”–not an OA journal (including those removed this year but before I get to them).
421 “xx”–unreachable or unworkable.
And the two oddities:
161 “xm2”–malware,also malware last year
29 “xx2”–unreachable or unworkable, as was true last year. - Ease of article counting articles:
“d” 6,146: easiest, taken directly from DOAJ (sometimes with 2022 count modified)
“w” 1,650: easy, journal website provides direct numbers at either volume or issue number
“f” 2,848: middling; numbers calculated using Find function for constants (e.g. “doi.” or “pdf”)
“c” 427: slowest; articles counted manually.