The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
When reporting their publication costs, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (FHG) (Fraunhofer Society) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
In the past, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has already made APC expenditures available to OpenAPC. This data originates from the central Fraunhofer Publication Fund.
Contact Person is Stefanie Seeh.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Fraunhofer covers publication fees for 298 articles, total expenditure amounts to 539,727€ and the average fee is 1,811€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 204 | 351452 | 1723 |
| Springer Nature | 34 | 60094 | 1767 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 18 | 46796 | 2600 |
| Elsevier BV | 13 | 27856 | 2143 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 12 | 22057 | 1838 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 4 | 6811 | 1703 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 3 | 5520 | 1840 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 4333 | 2166 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2689 | 1345 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1971 | 1971 |
| BioResources | 1 | 1498 | 1498 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 3607 | 3607 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1706 | 1706 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1715 | 1715 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1623 | 1623 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
