The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 4 more institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, completing the 2017 data report.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 87 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 122 425€ and the average fee is 1 407€.
The data originates from the Université de Franche-Comté and the research institutes IRSTEA, INRIA and IFSTTAR.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 18 | 25069 | 1393 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 17 | 29556 | 1739 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 21185 | 1630 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 13858 | 1386 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6413 | 1603 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6354 | 1588 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3160 | 1580 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2260 | 1130 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1683 | 841 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 2 | 600 | 300 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| Asociación Ibérica de Limnología | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Cosmos Scholars Publishing House | 1 | 307 | 307 |
| David Publishing Company | 1 | 855 | 855 |
| Herbert Publications PVT LTD | 1 | 310 | 310 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1690 | 1690 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1463 | 1463 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1697 | 1697 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 1 | 340 | 340 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2040 | 2040 |
| The Science and Information Organization | 1 | 296 | 296 |
| Uopen Journals | 1 | 750 | 750 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
