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Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-maintained, freely accessible directory of high-quality, peer-reviewed open-access journals and articles established in 2003. DOAJ indexes over 20,000 open-access journals across all disciplines (sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts) from diverse geographic regions. The directory serves researchers, librarians, and administrators as the authoritative curated list of legitimate open-access journals—differentiating quality open-access publications from predatory journals that lack genuine peer review. DOAJ quality seal, awarded to journals meeting stricter governance and transparency criteria, enables identification of the highest-caliber open-access publications.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / bibliometrics
  • Directory of Open Access Journals. (2024). About DOAJ. Retrieved from https://doaj.org/ · URL
  • Laakso, M., Welling, P., Bukvova, H., Nyman, L., Björk, B. C., & Hedlund, T. (2011). The development of open access journal publishing 1993–2009. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e20961. · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0020961
  • Solomon, D. J., & Björk, B. C. (2012). A study of open access journals using article processing charges. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(8), 1485-1495. · DOI 10.1002/asi.22673
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Curated claims

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.

Same method familyJournal Impact Factormachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPubMed and MEDLINEmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyScopus Databasemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyUlrichsweb Global Serials Directorymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyWeb of Science Databasemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

Evidence status

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

3 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

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