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Another decent week.
1,360 journals scanned for a total to date of 14,660.
5,888 with fees, 8,772 no fees (diamond) 1,611 new, 13,049 continuing 1,309,008 2025 articles; 1,197,589 2024 articles. Special cases include 323 bi (inactive); 184 xd (expired/defunct); 53 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 425 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 21 xn (not an OA jou...Another decent week.
NOTE: There will be a lot more “real life” slowdown at least between now and, say, April 15–some days with 100 journals, possibly some with none at all. At some point, it’s possible that my original target (book and uploaded spreadsheet ready by mid-June, Diamond book a few weeks later) may be in jeopardy, in which case I can eithe...
A decent week.
1,400 journals scanned for a total to date of 11,900.
4,882 with fees, 7,018 no fees (diamond) 1,315 new, 10,585 continuing 1,135,941 2025 articles; 1,043,167 2024 articles. Special cases include 258 bi (inactive); 144 xd (expired/defunct); 31 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 346 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 15 xn (not an OA journal, ...A little special note at the halfway point of the initial journal scan–11,208 checked out of 22,416 total.
That’s more-or-less halfway in other ways, most of which can’t really be determined because the population of serious OA journals changes.
Just for fun, I compared last year’s universe up to the same journal–European Heart Journal Case Reports (Oxford Unive...
A good week.
1,700 journals scanned for a total to date of 10,500.
4,380 with fees, 6,120 no fees (diamond) 1,140 new, 9,352 continuing 972,705 2025 articles; 908,591 2024 articles. Special cases include 217 bi (inactive); 120 xd (expired/defunct); 29 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 316 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 14 xn (not an OA journal, includi...