The GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.
Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 131 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 284 496€ and the average fee is 2 172€.
The following table shows the payments the GEOMAR has made to publishers since its last contribution.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 91 | 146951 | 1615 |
| Springer Nature | 79 | 203974 | 2582 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 42 | 114423 | 2724 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 39 | 61197 | 1569 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 33 | 70324 | 2131 |
| MDPI AG | 29 | 41817 | 1442 |
| Elsevier BV | 21 | 54008 | 2572 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 12112 | 1346 |
| American Meteorological Society | 5 | 3520 | 704 |
| REABIC | 5 | 5250 | 1050 |
| AAAS | 4 | 15448 | 3862 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 6739 | 1685 |
| Geological Society of America | 3 | 5304 | 1768 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5365 | 1788 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 3 | 5000 | 1667 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 7977 | 2659 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 3000 | 1000 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 6120 | 2040 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 6000 | 2000 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3652 | 1826 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3600 | 1800 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Magnolia Press | 1 | 709 | 709 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2215 | 2215 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
