Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.

The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein manages and reports data on APC expenditures at the PIK to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the data set is Roland Bertelmann.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 37 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 78 551€ and the average fee is 2 123€.

The following table and plots shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the PIK in 2019:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 10 16243 1624
Springer Nature 8 25820 3228
IOP Publishing 7 12658 1808
Elsevier BV 3 5900 1967
AAAS 2 8719 4359
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2813 1406
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1314 1314
Frontiers Media SA 1 222 222
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2624 2624
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1236 1236
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1002 1002

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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