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 173 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 277,955€ and the average fee is 1,607€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- IRSN (new)
- Université de Côte d’Azur (new, replaces Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis)
- Université de Rennes 1
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 | 41 | 71710 | 1749 |
| MDPI AG | 36 | 52511 | 1459 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 15 | 25996 | 1733 |
| Elsevier BV | 12 | 20064 | 1672 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 10582 | 1176 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 21710 | 2412 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 10632 | 1519 |
| IEEE | 7 | 10474 | 1496 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 8795 | 2199 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 4 | 1422 | 355 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 3411 | 1137 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5636 | 1879 |
| Alphamed Press | 2 | 3182 | 1591 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 2000 | 1000 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3861 | 1931 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 2399 | 1200 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 2 | 657 | 328 |
| Academic Journals | 1 | 472 | 472 |
| Biomedical Research Network, LLC | 1 | 431 | 431 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1569 | 1569 |
| Edizioni Minerva Medica | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2240 | 2240 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3300 | 3300 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2145 | 2145 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2791 | 2791 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 2174 | 2174 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1048 | 1048 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2242 | 2242 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
