Gold Open Access 6: First pass completed | Walt at Random

A summary of the complete first pass of 15,666 DOAJ-listed journals for Gold (and Diamond) Open Access 6, 2015-2020 Here’s where things stand. 15,666 journals had 1,018,364 articles, up from 890,069 2019 articles. The 2020 number will rise somewhat, both because some journals are late to publish issues but also because the numbers don’t include *any* of the malware and unreachable journals (but 2019 numbers do). For GOA5, the 2019 total was 854,018 articles. [...]