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Initial data
The initial dataset contributed by the University of Barcelona contains information on publication fees paid from 2010 to 2015.
Cost data
The data covers publication fees for 285 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 247 174€ and the average fee is 867€.
The following table and plots show the payments the University of Barcelona has made to publishers from 2010 to 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 94 | 73474 | 782 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 40 | 40712 | 1018 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 21 | 17686 | 842 |
| MDPI AG | 19 | 19806 | 1042 |
| Springer Nature | 18 | 18602 | 1033 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 14 | 14509 | 1036 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 7771 | 863 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 6 | 6432 | 1072 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 2381 | 476 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 6315 | 1263 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 4043 | 809 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 4 | 5168 | 1292 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 3164 | 791 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 4 | 1188 | 297 |
| Spanish Society for Microbiology | 4 | 2039 | 510 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 3700 | 1233 |
| The Company of Biologists | 3 | 4145 | 1382 |
| Academic Journals | 2 | 804 | 402 |
| BMJ | 2 | 2999 | 1499 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 2 | 1051 | 526 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 2 | 1763 | 881 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 844 | 422 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1162 | 581 |
| Asian Economic and Social Society | 1 | 185 | 185 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 655 | 655 |
| Bioinfo Publications | 1 | 657 | 657 |
| Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), | 1 | 145 | 145 |
| Elmer Press, Inc. | 1 | 410 | 410 |
| ESG | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| HSOA | 1 | 1315 | 1315 |
| Invention Journals | 1 | 55 | 55 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 262 | 262 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 381 | 381 |
| National Library of Serbia | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1169 | 1169 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 312 | 312 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 120 | 120 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 950 | 950 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
