SNSF reports 2023 APC expenditures


The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided its APC data for the 2023 period as well as some remaining articles for 2021 and 2022.

Within the framework of the SNSF’s OA policy, grantees are required to publish the results of their research in the form of Open Access publications. APC data on those publications is kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person for the SNSF is Simon Gorin.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 1,239 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 3,564,582€ and the average fee is 2,877€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 349 1261521 3615
Frontiers Media SA 199 591306 2971
MDPI AG 105 200363 1908
Copernicus GmbH 90 147741 1642
Elsevier BV 79 263771 3339
Oxford University Press (OUP) 57 172304 3023
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 41 108032 2635
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 36 141765 3938
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 35 95352 2724
BMJ 34 99197 2918
American Society for Microbiology 30 81745 2725
American Chemical Society (ACS) 28 81033 2894
Wiley-Blackwell 25 67571 2703
American Physical Society (APS) 13 34276 2637
AIP Publishing 9 22674 2519
Optica Publishing Group 9 19216 2135
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 9 6508 723
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 8 3701 463
American Astronomical Society 6 15856 2643
SAGE Publications 6 7742 1290
The Royal Society 6 7904 1317
American Medical Association (AMA) 5 15437 3087
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 5 10632 2126
American Society for Clinical Investigation 4 18993 4748
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 4 2316 579
Informa UK Limited 4 7774 1943
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 5221 1740
F1000 Research, Ltd. 3 3704 1235
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 7554 2518
Microbiology Society 3 7261 2420
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 4414 1471
ALTEX Edition 2 2943 1472
American Meteorological Society 2 4641 2321
Hogrefe Publishing Group 2 4033 2017
MIT Press - Journals 2 2367 1183
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 2573 1286
Royal College of Psychiatrists 2 4761 2380
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1778 1778
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1688 1688
Caltech Library 1 257 257
Elewa Biosciences Journals 1 206 206
EMBO 1 5454 5454
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 2511 2511
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 952 952
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 2050 2050
International Global Health Society 1 1173 1173
IOP Publishing 1 1765 1765
PeerJ 1 1523 1523
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 858 858
S. Karger AG 1 3757 3757
Schweizerbart 1 1981 1981
Scientific Societies 1 1852 1852
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2573 2573

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the SNSF 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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