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
