The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 3 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 2 of them reporting for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 473 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 979,014€ and the average fee is 2,070€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- INSERM
- Université des Antilles (new)
- École nationale supérieure d’ingénieurs de Caen (new)
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 | 138 | 291697 | 2114 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 82 | 170711 | 2082 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 44 | 73367 | 1667 |
| Elsevier BV | 43 | 123585 | 2874 |
| MDPI AG | 43 | 52625 | 1224 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 20 | 43400 | 2170 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 14 | 29806 | 2129 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 13 | 42126 | 3240 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 7 | 7300 | 1043 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 6 | 13552 | 2259 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 12003 | 2000 |
| EMBO | 5 | 19300 | 3860 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 11716 | 2929 |
| ASBMB | 4 | 5841 | 1460 |
| BMJ | 4 | 7722 | 1931 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 7368 | 1842 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 9758 | 2439 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 3 | 4743 | 1581 |
| IOS Press | 2 | 2750 | 1375 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 2 | 3325 | 1663 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4099 | 2049 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 3290 | 1645 |
| Aging and Disease | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3540 | 3540 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 2034 | 2034 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 3500 | 3500 |
| Austin Publishing Group | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 1223 | 1223 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| ESG | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 650 | 650 |
| IJournals Publications | 1 | 47 | 47 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2340 | 2340 |
| Joule Inc. | 1 | 1850 | 1850 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2080 | 2080 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 3200 | 3200 |
| Medknow | 1 | 1217 | 1217 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 887 | 887 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 3340 | 3340 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 5000 | 5000 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Science Publications | 1 | 571 | 571 |
| Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research | 1 | 257 | 257 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
