More institutional data provided by Couperin.org


The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France. A second batch of data, containing articles for 5 more institutions, has now been released.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 40 articles published in 2015. Total expenditure amounts to 54 926€ and the average fee is 1 373€.

The data originates from these 5 institutions (Have a look at the treemaps site for institutional details):

  • Université de Bordeaux
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse
  • Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
  • Université de Poitiers
  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 16047 1234
Springer Nature 9 12383 1376
Impact Journals, LLC 2 5177 2588
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3626 1813
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 597 298
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1532 1532
Copernicus GmbH 1 1968 1968
Elsevier BV 1 2303 2303
Frontiers Media SA 1 960 960
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 732 732
Informa UK Limited 1 542 542
MDPI AG 1 1671 1671
OMICS Publishing Group 1 684 684
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1463 1463
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1431 1431
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 1099 1099
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2709 2709

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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