diff --git a/java/ql/lib/change-notes/2023-12-04-java-successfully-extracted.md b/java/ql/lib/change-notes/2023-12-04-java-successfully-extracted.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6833e9c922de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/ql/lib/change-notes/2023-12-04-java-successfully-extracted.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+category: minorAnalysis
+---
+* The diagnostic query `java/diagnostics/successfully-extracted-files`, and therefore the Code Scanning UI measure of scanned Java files, now considers any Java file seen during extraction, even one with some errors, to be extracted / scanned.
diff --git a/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/DiagnosticsReporting.qll b/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/DiagnosticsReporting.qll
index 63819fe02c26..77baf783f852 100644
--- a/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/DiagnosticsReporting.qll
+++ b/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/DiagnosticsReporting.qll
@@ -79,12 +79,16 @@ predicate reportableErrors(Diagnostic d, string msg, int sev) {
  */
 predicate reportableWarnings(Diagnostic d, string msg, int sev) { knownWarnings(d, msg, sev) }
 
+/**
+ * Holds if compilation unit `f` is a source file.
+ */
+predicate extracted(CompilationUnit f) { exists(f.getRelativePath()) and f.fromSource() }
+
 /**
  * Holds if compilation unit `f` is a source file that has
  * no relevant extraction diagnostics associated with it.
  */
 predicate successfullyExtracted(CompilationUnit f) {
-  not exists(Diagnostic d | reportableDiagnostics(d, _, _) and d.getLocation().getFile() = f) and
-  exists(f.getRelativePath()) and
-  f.fromSource()
+  extracted(f) and
+  not exists(Diagnostic d | reportableDiagnostics(d, _, _) and d.getLocation().getFile() = f)
 }
diff --git a/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/SuccessfullyExtractedFiles.ql b/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/SuccessfullyExtractedFiles.ql
index 0a1f2fd6caff..5551ca3140bc 100644
--- a/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/SuccessfullyExtractedFiles.ql
+++ b/java/ql/src/Diagnostics/SuccessfullyExtractedFiles.ql
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
- * @name Successfully extracted files
+ * @name Extracted files
  * @description A list of all files in the source code directory that
- *              were extracted without encountering an error in the file.
+ *              were extracted.
  * @kind diagnostic
  * @id java/diagnostics/successfully-extracted-files
  * @tags successfully-extracted-files
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ import java
 import DiagnosticsReporting
 
 from CompilationUnit f
-where successfullyExtracted(f)
+where extracted(f)
 select f, ""