While there will be a post for week eight on Sunday, I thought this milestone deserved a special post: 10,150 journals scanned; 10,144 to go. The true halfway journal–that is, 10,147 scanned with 10,147 to go–is Optica (Optica Publishing Group, United States), while the 10,150th is a slightly more prolific title from the same publisher: Optics Express.
So far, I count 983,026 2023 articles and 1,004,737 2022 articles (of course, neither count is final–what with 1,450 journals that need to be rechecked). 4,039 have fees; 6,111 do not.
Special Cases
- bi (Inactive): 248
- xd (Defunct): 124
- xj (Removed from DOAJ): 19
- xm (Malware/certificate problems): 373
- xn (Not an OA journal): 8
- xx (Unreachable/unworkable): 404
Does this mean the first scan will be done in another 52 days? Probably not, but we shall see.