Gold Open Access Journal Article Counts, 2021-2025

Serious open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals as of January 1, 2026. The dataset shows article counts for the years 2021 through 2025 and other information. It was authored by Walt Crawford, last updated on May 27, 2026, and is available as a 3.8 MB XLSX file under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Track the growth of gold open access publishing based on annual article counts from 2021-2025.
• Compare journal output and activity levels based on the provided article counts.
• Analyze the landscape of 'serious' open access journals based on DOAJ inclusion criteria.

Strengths

• Covers a five-year time range (2021-2025) for longitudinal analysis.
• Focuses on 'serious' open access journals as defined by DOAJ inclusion.
• Explicitly dated snapshot from January 1, 2026, providing a clear temporal reference.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to the DOAJ listing criteria.

Provenance

Source

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from DOAJ metadata and journal publication records.

Time Range

2021-2025 (article counts), with a journal list snapshot from 2026-01-01.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 17:04:49