Hi Heather A couple of comments to clarify your post on the SKC blog:
“Based on data gathered last year, it appears that article counts by publication year by journal significantly under-represent the actual journal content, and based on a more recent cursory search of DOAJ and e-mail with DOAJ’s community manager Dom, it appears that a fairly recent change in metadata harvesting at DOAJ has increased the disparity.” Dom: When you say the actual journal content, I presume you mean the journal article counts in DOAJ? In a way yes, this is under-represented but actually what we are showing in DOAJ now is a truer picture of the data than we were showing before. The greater disparity is because we no longer include any noise in these figures. Where we can identify a correct Year value, we include it in the count. When we can’t identify a Year value, we ignore it. Unfortunately, we see publishers uploading all sorts of values in the Year field: anything from typos (201, 2103, 2066 etc) to Roman numerals. “If the publication numbers by year in DOAJ do not match your journal’s publication numbers, check the DOAJ For Publishers page for information on what to do next.” Dom: this URL https://doaj.org/publishers#correct “If you have any questions, please send them to DOAJ feedback. If you have tips for other publishers to resolve this issue, feel free to add a comment to this post. Feel free to add questions too, just note that I won’t be able to help.” Dom: Absolutely, do send us your questions: feedb...@doaj.org. In most cases, we will ask publishers to re-upload their metadata with the correct Year of Publication. DOAJ can’t correct this metadata for you. We have no way of manually changing metadata or of knowing what the correct values should be. If the full-text URLs of the articles that you are correcting have not changed then there is no need to contact us first: you can simply upload the new metadata. Thanks to you and the SKC Team for a great blog! Best, Dom Community Manager
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