The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 8 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 494 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,057,806€ and the average fee is 2,141€. The data also contained 2 BPC records which are not listed here.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Université d’Angers
- Université Clermont Auvergne
- Nantes Université
- Université Paris Cité
- Université de La Réunion
- Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
- Université de Bretagne Occidentale - UBO
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 | 116 | 233790 | 2015 |
| Springer Nature | 82 | 230979 | 2817 |
| Elsevier BV | 72 | 126541 | 1758 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 68 | 164796 | 2423 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 27045 | 1803 |
| Informa UK Limited | 10 | 25246 | 2525 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 10 | 30138 | 3014 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 8 | 19708 | 2463 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 10866 | 1552 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 7 | 14702 | 2100 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 16659 | 2380 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 9144 | 1524 |
| BMJ | 5 | 12176 | 2435 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 9624 | 2406 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 3 | 3106 | 1035 |
| IEEE | 3 | 5640 | 1880 |
| IGI Global | 3 | 6179 | 2060 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 6053 | 2018 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 5486 | 1829 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 4364 | 2182 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 3754 | 1877 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 4781 | 2390 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 4709 | 2354 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2686 | 1343 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 2535 | 1268 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2923 | 1461 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 6698 | 3349 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 2 | 5000 | 2500 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1400 | 700 |
| AAAS | 1 | 3790 | 3790 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 3215 | 3215 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1277 | 1277 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 6183 | 6183 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1362 | 1362 |
| Annex Publishers | 1 | 2178 | 2178 |
| Ariesdue | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1710 | 1710 |
| Biomedical Research Network, LLC | 1 | 1073 | 1073 |
| Clinics Cardive Publishing | 1 | 365 | 365 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 950 | 950 |
| David Publishing Company | 1 | 588 | 588 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 1100 | 1100 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Forum Multimedia Publishing LLC | 1 | 1014 | 1014 |
| Gavin Publishers | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1689 | 1689 |
| Heighten Science Publications Corporation | 1 | 2470 | 2470 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 1 | 640 | 640 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| International Global Health Society | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2379 | 2379 |
| Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 1 | 271 | 271 |
| Korean Neuropsychiatric Association | 1 | 491 | 491 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3247 | 3247 |
| Medicina Oral, S.L. | 1 | 180 | 180 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2520 | 2520 |
| OA Publishers Private Limited | 1 | 554 | 554 |
| Peertechz Publications Private Limited | 1 | 1489 | 1489 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 1081 | 1081 |
| Pesticide Science Society of Japan | 1 | 617 | 617 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1120 | 1120 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 1898 | 1898 |
| Royal College of General Practitioners | 1 | 1158 | 1158 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1690 | 1690 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 1418 | 1418 |
| The Electromagnetics Academy | 1 | 92 | 92 |
| The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology and The Korean Academy of Pediatric Al | 1 | 458 | 458 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1930 | 1930 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
