How many academic journals are there? Don't look for the answer in Web of Science or Scopus. For a better start, see this new study.
https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/doi/10.1162/qss_a_00228/114119/Recalibrating-the-Scope-of-Scholarly-Publishing-A

From Table 3. Journals listed by different sources:

EBSCOHost = 17,874
WoS = 24,510
Scopus = 41,957
Dimensions = 72,990
OpenAlex = 124,073

But all of these are incomplete. The authors use data from Open Journal systems to show that OJS journals omitted from each source.

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