Virginia Tech reports 2017 and 2018 APC expenditures


The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides cost data on APCs paid in 2017 and 2018.

Contact person is Philip Young.

New cost data

The data covers publication fees for 154 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 167 544€ and the average fee is 1 088€.

The following table shows the reported APC expenditures in 2017 and 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 33 38270 1160
MDPI AG 31 27359 883
Frontiers Media SA 20 25391 1270
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 20 26053 1303
Wiley-Blackwell 11 14387 1308
Elsevier BV 6 5875 979
AIP Publishing 3 3592 1197
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 1619 540
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 3608 1203
SAGE Publications 3 2643 881
American Society of Agronomy 2 2093 1046
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 2216 1108
Canadian Center of Science and Education 2 678 339
Informa UK Limited 2 1892 946
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 887 887
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1271 1271
American Society for Microbiology 1 1271 1271
BMJ 1 1108 1108
Center for Transportation Studies 1 636 636
Clute Institute 1 776 776
Cogitatio 1 780 780
IOP Publishing 1 1271 1271
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1042 1042
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 573 573
The Company of Biologists 1 1330 1330
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 345 345
Whioce Publishing Pte Ltd 1 577 577

Aggregated data

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Virginia Tech 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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