The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 4 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 3 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 152 articles published mostly between 2018 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 227,259€ and the average fee is 1,495€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de technologie de Troyes (new)
- Université Gustave Eiffel (new)
- CHU de Rennes (new)
- Mines ParisTech
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 | 32 | 58233 | 1820 |
| MDPI AG | 31 | 42625 | 1375 |
| Elsevier BV | 22 | 29746 | 1352 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 19404 | 1493 |
| IEEE | 10 | 16511 | 1651 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 9 | 15710 | 1746 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 6 | 7622 | 1270 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 5160 | 1290 |
| BMJ | 3 | 6945 | 2315 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 3 | 1413 | 471 |
| Slovenian Society for Stereology and Quantitative Image Analysis | 3 | 450 | 150 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 4720 | 2360 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1971 | 1971 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 2046 | 2046 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2250 | 2250 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1925 | 1925 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1322 | 1322 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| Fundacao Faculdade de Medicina | 1 | 1065 | 1065 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1783 | 1783 |
| Macrothink Institute, Inc. | 1 | 91 | 91 |
| Medknow | 1 | 1647 | 1647 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1143 | 1143 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 902 | 902 |
| The Korean Society of Radiology | 1 | 73 | 73 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2250 | 2250 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
