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)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
