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.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 918 articles, total expenditure amounts to 2,165,099€ and the average fee is 2,358€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- CEA - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- CNAM - Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
- INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 230 | 407121 | 1770 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 176 | 438126 | 2489 |
| Springer Nature | 150 | 426695 | 2845 |
| Elsevier BV | 117 | 264663 | 2262 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 30 | 83254 | 2775 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 30 | 87890 | 2930 |
| BMJ | 21 | 50760 | 2417 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 21 | 45215 | 2153 |
| Informa UK Limited | 13 | 31771 | 2444 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 10 | 28721 | 2872 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 9 | 24404 | 2712 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 18863 | 2096 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 8 | 23349 | 2919 |
| AAAS | 7 | 29900 | 4271 |
| American Astronomical Society | 7 | 12168 | 1738 |
| IEEE | 7 | 13321 | 1903 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 6 | 16089 | 2681 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 11675 | 2335 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 4 | 8470 | 2117 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 4 | 13000 | 3250 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 6520 | 2173 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 3 | 14956 | 4985 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 6940 | 2313 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 6125 | 2042 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5098 | 1699 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 5761 | 1920 |
| BioScientifica | 2 | 3784 | 1892 |
| EMBO | 2 | 9000 | 4500 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 2 | 2200 | 1100 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 3041 | 1521 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 9950 | 4975 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 4490 | 2245 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 2 | 3334 | 1667 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 6660 | 3330 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 2 | 1537 | 769 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 5000 | 5000 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 4282 | 4282 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 3246 | 3246 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 3805 | 3805 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1836 | 1836 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 2002 | 2002 |
| Gavin Publishers | 1 | 1569 | 1569 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 765 | 765 |
| Medicina (B Aires) | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Medwin Publishers | 1 | 2649 | 2649 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1296 | 1296 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 2266 | 2266 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 1 | 2300 | 2300 |
| Scientific Archives LLC | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 1 | 1595 | 1595 |
| The Endocrine Society | 1 | 2586 | 2586 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
