Table 3.

Journals by index, directory, and list, with proportion that use OJS (n = 25,671)

 JournalsJUOJSIndex (%)OJS (%)
(a) General research indexes 
 Web of Science Citation Reportsa 24,510 279 1.1 1.2 
 EBSCOHosta 17,874 771 4.3 3.4 
 Scopusa 41,957 1,646 3.9 7.2 
 Dimensionsa 72,990 12,435 17.0 54.5 
 OpenAlexa 124,073 16,366 13.2 63.8 
 Google Scholarb – 22,679 – 88.3 
  
(b) Regional research index 
 Latindexc 24,486 4,208 17.2 66.6d 
  
(c) Open access research indexes 
 Directory of OA Journals (DOAJ)a 17,213 5,312 30.9 20.7 
 Directory of OA Resources (ROAD)d 37,333 10,976 29.4 42.8 
  
(d) “Predatory” journal lists 
 Cabells Predatory Reportsa 7,490 237 3.2% 1.0% 
 Beall’s Liste 38,295f 366 1.0% 1.4% 
 JournalsJUOJSIndex (%)OJS (%)
(a) General research indexes 
 Web of Science Citation Reportsa 24,510 279 1.1 1.2 
 EBSCOHosta 17,874 771 4.3 3.4 
 Scopusa 41,957 1,646 3.9 7.2 
 Dimensionsa 72,990 12,435 17.0 54.5 
 OpenAlexa 124,073 16,366 13.2 63.8 
 Google Scholarb – 22,679 – 88.3 
  
(b) Regional research index 
 Latindexc 24,486 4,208 17.2 66.6d 
  
(c) Open access research indexes 
 Directory of OA Journals (DOAJ)a 17,213 5,312 30.9 20.7 
 Directory of OA Resources (ROAD)d 37,333 10,976 29.4 42.8 
  
(d) “Predatory” journal lists 
 Cabells Predatory Reportsa 7,490 237 3.2% 1.0% 
 Beall’s Liste 38,295f 366 1.0% 1.4% 

Note: Rmarkdown notebook analysis (https://github.com/saurabh-khanna/pkp/blob/master/scripts/ojs_global_paper.md) is available for this table.

a

JUOJS matched by ISSN (n = 22,809) with Web of Science (mapped April 2022), including its “Emerging Sources” segment, as well as sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities; Scopus (January 2021); EBSCOHost (January 2022); Dimensions (January 2022); OpenAlex (May 2022); Latindex (June 2022); DOAJ (June 2021); and Cabell’s Predatory Reports (November 2021).

b

Google Scholar, mapped June 2022 using domain name rather than journal URL, does not make its total journal count available or calculable.

c

Latindex analysis includes only JUOJS published in this index’s participating countries (n = 6,319).

d

Analysis performed by Bianca Kramer (2022).

e

Total projected from Chen’s (2019) 10% sampling of the list’s 1,189 publishers, averaging 42.7 journals/publisher with 28.5% of publishers no longer online in January 2019, with this proportion applied to the list’s 1,395 standalone journals.

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