Walt at Random

The second pass was completed–and some data checking was done, resulting in a very slightly lower count: 22,395 journals.

Of these:

• 8,106 have fees; 14,295 are diamond/no-fee (63.9%)
• Special cases include 501 bi (inactive since 2023); 262 xd* (defunct/inactive since 2020); 180 xj* (removed from DOAJ); 190 xm (malware or certificate problems–a much lower figure than last year); 447 xm2* (malware for two or more years–a slightly lower figure than last year); 24 xn* (not journals or impossible to deal with); 868 xx (unavailable or unworkable. a much higher figure than last year, which can be explained entirely by problems in Egypt and Iran); and 308 xx2* (xx for two or more years or xx this and xm last year). The “*” indicates that these journals are on the “excl” sheet of the shared spreadsheet and will not be used in the books.
• Including excluded journals, these journals published 1.641.567 articles in 2025 and 1,509.196 in 2024.
• 2,264,journals were added to DOAJ in 2025 and included in this study.

Excluding exclusions leaves 21,174 journals that will be reflected in the book and tables, of which:

• 7.714 have fees and 13.460 (63.6%) are Diamond OA
• These journals accounted for 1,633,336 articles in 2025.

Next Steps and Preliminary Availability

After a day or two to decompress, I’ll do some data manipulation (NOT changing data, but preparing derived data) and start on the books. The first book is likely to take around a month–maybe more, maybe a bit less.

At that point, I’ll also load the dataset to Figshare with a copy on my own website (waltcrawford.name) and proceed to do the Diamond OA book.

Meanwhile, an unofficial dataset–unlikely to change unless something odd occurs–is available for your use at waltcrawford.name/share26.xlsx. NOTE: The initial version of share26 had the yearly columns reversed (oldest first, which is how they will be for the working dataset). I’ve reverted them back to newest-first and replaced the dataset.

A very strong week after a missed week to recover from hardware/software problems. This is the final weekly report, with only a bit more than 500 journals remaining. (an overall First Pass summary will follow those0.

1,900 journals scanned for a total to date of 21,900.

• 7,983 with fees, 13,917 no fees (diamond)
• 2,212 new, 19,699 continuing
• 1,596,489 2025 articles; 1,482,624 2024 articles.
• Special cases include 478 bi (inactive); 257 xd (expired/defunct); 142 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 729 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 24 xn (not an OA journal, including login requirements); 1,681 xx/xx2 (unavailable or unworkable).
• So far, 2,575 need to be retested.

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The hundreds (dozens? anybody?) tracking GOA26 progress may have wondered why Week Fifteen didn’t appear on Wednesday, April 15.

Well, there were taxes…but that wasn’t the reason.

The trackpad buttons on my aging notebook started getting sticky a few weeks ago–and last weekend, the right button seems to have broken. And somewhere in the process of trying to baby the keys along (I’ll get a new notebook, but preferably not mid-project), I did something a bur clumsily, and in the process deleted the 2025 column for a chunk of the spreadsheet. And discovered how helpful File History was: not at all. in this case.

So I’ve spent several days doing a partial rescan of that chunk, which I just finished. Some real-world stuff is also happening, but by Monday I should  be back in business, finishing Week 15 somewhat belatedly. Best guess is that there are two weeks left for the first pass, so the first pass should be done around the end of the month. Then comes the second pass, the data massaging, and the books.

If you’re wondering: I had a Microsoft Optical Mouse lying around, which is now plugged in and replacing the trackpad and buttons (locked out in software). Not clear that it’s feasible to repair the buttons.

A strong week. With luck, only two weeks left for the first pass.

1,500 journals scanned for a total to date of 20,000. [2,416 remain.]

• 7,157 with fees, 12,843 no fees (diamond)
• 2,016 new, 17,984 continuing
• 1,484,428 2025 articles; 1,379,658 2024 articles.
• Special cases include 432 bi (inactive); 228 xd (expired/defunct); 122 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 670 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 23 xn (not an OA journal, including login requirements); 1,510 xx/xx2 (unavailable or unworkable).
• So far, 2,411 need to be retested.

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A decent week.

1,300 journals scanned for a total to date of 18,500. [3,917 remain.]

• 6,559 with fees, 11,941 no fees (diamond)
• 1,866 new, 16,634 continuing
• 1,447,166 2025 articles; 1,339,891 2024 articles.
• Special cases include 404 bi (inactive); 221 xd (expired/defunct); 96 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 512 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 23 xn (not an OA journal, including login requirements); 1,402 xx/xx2 (unavailable or unworkable).
• So far, 2,188 need to be retested.

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A lesser week, as mid-April nears and other real-life obligations take place.

1,100 journals scanned for a total to date of 17,200.

• 6,402 with fees, 10,798 no fees (diamond)
• 1,795 new, 15,405 continuing
• 1,408,555 2025 articles; 1,298,505 2024 articles.
• Special cases include 369 bi (inactive); 208 xd (expired/defunct); 60 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 478 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 21 xn (not an OA journal, including login requirements); 1,328 xx/xx2 (unavailable or unworkable).
• So far, 2,044 need to be retested.

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Another decent week.

1,440 journals scanned for a total to date of 16,100.

• 6,390 with fees, 9,710 no fees (diamond)
• 1,746 new, 14,354 continuing
• 1,382,138 2025 articles; 1,270,599 2024 articles.
• Special cases include 350 bi (inactive); 201 xd (expired/defunct); 57 xj (removed from DOAJ since 1/1/26); 463 xm/xm2 (malware or certificate issues); 21 xn (not an OA journal, including login requirements); 1,265 xx/xx2 (unavailable or unworkable).
• So far, 1,922 need to be retested.

We’re now in The U’s–by far the largest group of publishers. So far, I’ve checked 560 of the U journals, leaving a mere 4,891 to go.

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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 journal, including login requirements); 1,151 xx/xx2 (unavailable or unworkable).
• So far, 1,779 need to be retested.

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