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

[Jan Szczepanski]

You will find 8,004 "Free, full text, quality controlled scientific
and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages"
in DOAJ and nearly 36.000 in Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek and
my own list covering humanities and social sciences mostly,
more than 16.000. Ulrich is not the best source for open access journals.

Jan



2012/8/3 Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com>:
> 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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