FWF reports its 2017 APC expenditures


The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.

Contact person is Katharina Rieck.

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 960 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2 253 919€ and the average fee is 2 348€.

The following table shows the payments the FWF has made to publishers in 2017 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 169 452205 2676
Springer Nature 137 277201 2023
Wiley-Blackwell 97 316599 3264
Informa UK Limited 75 128395 1712
American Chemical Society (ACS) 67 193894 2894
Frontiers Media SA 55 124628 2266
IOP Publishing 54 131447 2434
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 43 69835 1624
Oxford University Press (OUP) 27 66611 2467
MDPI AG 19 25163 1324
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 17 19232 1131
American Physical Society (APS) 15 32255 2150
Impact Journals, LLC 14 39920 2851
Optical Society of America (OSA) 13 24638 1895
Copernicus GmbH 11 15815 1438
AIP Publishing 10 18189 1819
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 10 23997 2400
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 8 10193 1274
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 7 23472 3353
American Meteorological Society 7 16047 2292
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 7 21999 3143
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 6 11220 1870
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 5 18388 3678
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 6872 1718
PeerJ 4 3212 803
American Society for Clinical Investigation 3 13609 4536
American Society for Microbiology 3 8135 2712
Canadian Science Publishing 3 9818 3273
Geological Society of America 3 7999 2666
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 5842 1947
Inderscience Publishers 3 4500 1500
MyJove Corporation 3 12813 4271
Rockefeller University Press 3 9556 3185
SAGE Publications 3 2034 678
The Company of Biologists 3 11361 3787
The Royal Society 3 7752 2584
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 2 6845 3422
eLife Sciences Organisation, Ltd. 2 4711 2356
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 2 8329 4164
MIT Press - Journals 2 2319 1160
S. Karger AG 2 4165 2082
The American Association of Immunologists 2 7168 3584
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 3900 1950
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 2 3111 1555
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 3759 3759
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 698 698
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 1 1542 1542
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. 1 2119 2119
Berghahn Books 1 1366 1366
BMJ 1 3065 3065
Brepols Publishers NV 1 1740 1740
Brill Academic Publishers 1 1995 1995
Carl Hanser Verlag 1 2117 2117
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 2242 2242
EDP Sciences 1 840 840
Elmer Press, Inc. 1 507 507
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1920 1920
Genetics Society of America 1 2330 2330
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1500 1500
HERDER 1 960 960
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 3000 3000
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 1436 1436
IOS Press 1 2220 2220
Mattersburger Kreis 1 600 600
Microbiology Society 1 3230 3230
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik 1 900 900
PEETERS 1 763 763
Pensoft Publishers 1 468 468
Portland Press Ltd. 1 2640 2640
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 584 584
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 1 2716 2716
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 1 822 822
Trans Tech Publications 1 250 250
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 1 200 200

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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