Archive for January, 2025

Gold/Diamond OA 2025: Week Four

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

So far, 5,550 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 466,586; for 2023, 422,476. Of these, 2,385 have fees, and 3,165 don’t (diamond OA). 551 are newly-added and 4,999 are ongoing. 843 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

  • Inactive (bi): 124.
  • Expired (xd): 69
  • Malware (xm): 206
  • Not OA (xn): 10–note that this includes journals dropped from DOAJ.
  • Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 197,

A milestone of sorts: the 2024 article count is already higher than the total 2012 article count in the first study (Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015), which was 438,644.

Gold/Diamond OA 2025: Week Three

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

So far, 4,025 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 270,634; for 2023, 259,116. Of these, 1,474 have fees, and 2,551 don’t (diamond OA). 375 are newly-added and 3,650 are ongoing. 695 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

  • Inactive (bi): 89.
  • Expired (xd): 58
  • Malware (xm): 154
  • Not OA: 5
  • Unavailable/unworkable: 154

Gold/Diamond OA 2025: Week Two

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Another pretty good week, with 1,375 journals checked, for a total to date of 2,775. Some metrics:

  • Article count (subject to change): 183,636 in 2024; 172,594 in 2023.
  • Problematic cases include 63 bi (inactive), 42 xd (defunct), 60 xm (malware), 3 xn (not OA), and 105 xx (unavailable or unworkable).
  • 1,204 fee journals and 1,751 no fee (diamond)
  • 255 newly-added and 2,520 continuing.
  • 472 journals will be rechecked.

Gold/Diamond Open Access 2025: Week One

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

The first full week of research for Gold/Diamond OA 2025 is complete (technically, eight days, because I’m using a weekly planner that ends on Wednesday): 1,400 journals scanned.

Summary numbers (thanks to PivotTables):

  • 72,571 articles for 2024 (subject to change as some journals are rechecked). 69,112 for 2023.
  • 440 journals with fees; 960 diamond journals.
  • 169 newly-added journals; 1,231 continuing.
  • 248 journals will need rechecking
  • While 1,254 journals are “normal” there are quite a few special cases: 34 inactive journals; 16 defunct; 35 malware; 2 that don’t appear to be OA; and 59 that were either inaccessible or unworkable. Note that I’m counting SSL and certificate issues as malware for now; as with all other XM and XX (the last two counts) that weren’t similarly problematic last year, they’ll be rechecked.