The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has reported its APC expenditures for the 2022 period.
Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology).
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 149 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 237 405€ and the average fee is 1 593€.
To interpret the cost data correctly, please have a look at the funding policy of the Leibniz Association’s open access fund.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 71 | 112895 | 1590 | 
| Frontiers Media SA | 24 | 35079 | 1462 | 
| Copernicus GmbH | 17 | 31416 | 1848 | 
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 15003 | 1875 | 
| Springer Nature | 6 | 9788 | 1631 | 
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 5600 | 1400 | 
| Institute of Agrophysics Polish Academy of Sciences | 3 | 2600 | 867 | 
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3443 | 1721 | 
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3403 | 1702 | 
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2966 | 1483 | 
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1466 | 1466 | 
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1396 | 1396 | 
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1904 | 1904 | 
| Iron and Steel Institute of Japan | 1 | 569 | 569 | 
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2004 | 2004 | 
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1773 | 1773 | 
| PeerJ | 1 | 1592 | 1592 | 
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1666 | 1666 | 
| University of California Press | 1 | 1141 | 1141 | 
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1699 | 1699 | 
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
