All 21,208 journals have been checked–but, as with all numbers here, that’s just at the end of the first pass: the second pass will assuredly reduce the number of journals and change other numbers.
Total articles for 2024: 1,432.325; for 2023, 1,405,501. Of the 21,208 journals, 7,360 have fees and 13,846 don’t (diamond OA). 1,893 are newly-added and 19,315 are ongoing. 3,220 may need rechecking, including most of these special cases (except bi and xd):
Inactive (bi): 481
Expired (xd): 251
Malware (xm): 9947
Not OA (xn): 197–mostly journals dropped from DOAJ.
Unavailable/unworkable (xx): 942.
Next steps (after a few days off): Determine which journals actually need rechecking; do the rechecking (probably 2-3 weeks); massage the data; prepare the main manuscript; post/publish the main book and dataset; and prepare the Diamond OA by Country book.
If it seems as though total gold OA (excluding “hybrid”) is pretty much flat, I believe that’s right.
I may or may not post daily (Mastodon) and weekly (here) updates on Pass Two.
