Diamond OA 2024: The World of No-Fee Open Access Journals

The overall picture for 2023, the last year covered here:

  • 422,941 articles in 2023—down a bit from 2022.
  • 12,991 journals, of which 11,847 had 2023 articles when checked.
  • Diamond OA is about half humanities & social sciences (49%of articles and 63% of journals).
  • Diamond OA is almost entirely (97%) either published or funded by universities and societies and is mostly in small and medium-sized journals.

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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.