Walt at Random

So far, 15,500 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 1,221,491; for 2023, 1,184,642. Of the 15,500 journals, 5,806 have fees and 9,694 don’t (diamond OA). 1,536 are newly-added and 13,964 are ongoing. 2,2217 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 360
Expired (xd): 189
Malware (xm): 572 [last week was a typo]
Not OA (xn): 91–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 652

So far, 14,225 journals have been checked–just over two-thirds of the total. Total articles for 2024: 1,173,934; for 2023, 1,134,855. Of the 14,225 journals, 5,610 have fees and 8,615 don’t (diamond OA). 1,418 are newly-added and 12,807 are ongoing. 2,027 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 336
Expired (xd): 179
Malware (xm): 4524
Not OA (xn): 70–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 590

So far, 13,000 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 1,097,275; for 2023, 1,066,934. Of the 13,000 journals, 4,999 have fees and 8,001 don’t (diamond OA). 1,299 are newly-added and 11,701 are ongoing. 1,910 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 307
Expired (xd): 164
Malware (xm): 497
Not OA (xn): 55–note that this includes journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 551

So far, 11,750 journals have been checked. Total articles for 2024: 1,040,405 (the million-article mark; for 2023, 1,007,306. Of the 11,750 journals, 4,589 have fees and 7.161 don’t (diamond OA). 1,172 are newly-added and 10,578 are ongoing. 1,784 will be rechecked, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):

Inactive (bi): 274
Expired (xd): 145
Malware (xm): 473
Not OA (xn): 44–note that this includes journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 502

No new milestone other than the million-article mark.