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

[Stevan Harnad]

On 2012-08-03, at 4:53 PM, Sally Morris wrote:

> 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.

I found it surprising too. That's why I'm asking others who have 
access to Ulrichs to repeat the search and let us know.

Stevan

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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'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
> 
> --
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> It would be helpful if others could check and confirm these figures.
> 
> Stevan Harnad
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