[GOAL] Re: Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of active peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311

[Sally Morris]

I find this figure very surprising.  What appears to be the same search,
carried out this past March, came up with a (to me) much more credible
figure of 27,566.
 
Sally
 
 
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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Stevan Harnad
Sent: 03 August 2012 20:08
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Cc: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum
Subject: [GOAL] Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of active
peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311


For years now, I've just been re-using an old Ulrich
<http://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com> 's estimate of about 25,000 for the
total number of active peer-reviewed journals. 

Prompted by a recent query from someone, I've checked again, and -- unless
I've made a mistake in my search -- the number now seems to have doubled to
55,311.

The parameters I used to get this figure were (1) Active, (2) Journal, (3)
Academic/Scholarly, (4) Refereed/Peer-reviewed, 

A further breakdown shows that of these 55,311 active peer reviewed
journals,

23,527 (43%) are available online

9,354 (17%) are indexed in Thomson-Reuters-ISI's Journal Citation reports

6,962 (13%) are open access journals (freely available online) (Gold OA,
presumably not including Hybrid Gold).

769 (11%) of the 9,354 Thomson-Reuters-ISI-indexed journals are open access
journals

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According to the last estimate of journals indexed by SHERPA/ROMEO (which
does not include all the journals indexed by Ulrichs, but does include most
of the top journals indexed by Thomson-Reuters-ISI):

60% of journals recognize the author's right to provide immediate,
un-embargoed open access upon self-archiving their final drafts in their
institutional repositories.

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It would be helpful if others could check and confirm these figures.

Stevan Harnad
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