15,500 journals scanned, with 1,242,676 articles in 2023 and 1,265,241 articles in 2022. That leaves 4,794 journals still to scan. Of the 15,500 journals, 4,004 have fees and 5,996 do not–they’re diamond OA. Unfortunately, 2,219 will need rechecking, a slow process.
Special cases
- bi (inactive: nothing since 2021): 384
- xd (defunct): 179
- xj (apparently removed from DOAJ): 66
- xm (malware and certificate issues): 596
- xn (not OA journals, including those requiring login): 13
- xx (unreachable or unworkable): 649
While there may be more slowdowns to take care of other issues, “u” publishers (mostly universities, and mostly Hispanic so far) are going well. So it’s likely to be around four weeks to finish the first pass–which is very good.
If I had to guess, most of the “xx” cases will go away (that is, become “a”–ordinary), and with luck a third or more of the “xm” cases also will, but that’s just a guess.
Growth
It may be worth noting that I’ve already scanned almost as many journals as the total size of DOAJ as of January 1, 2020; 15,500 compared to 15,666.