"We present DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology, evolutionary biology and archaeology (https://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr/). DAFNEE includes information on over 600 journals (co)run by academic or non-profit institutions, aiming at helping to keep publishing funds within the academic community. The database details these journal’s business models, article processing charges, citation rates and partnerships. We show that DAFNEE journals compare favourably to non-DAFNEE ones in terms of editorial and financial policy, while offering similar citation rates."
https://academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeb/voaf143/8325101
PS: I like this idea and hope that researchers in other fields will work on their own versions. The job could be done badly. But if done well, the big plus is that promotion and tenure committees would have (new) good reasons to shift to more academic-friendly criteria and away from a narrow focus on brand, prestige, and metrics like impact factor.
