IFW reports its 2024 and 2025 APC expenditures


The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the second half of 2024 and a first batch for 2025.

Contact person for the contributed IFW data is Jana Sonnenstuhl.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 17 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 46,442€ and the average fee is 2,732€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 7 25819 3688
Wiley-Blackwell 5 10592 2118
Elsevier BV 2 3352 1676
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2493 2493
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1523 1523
MDPI AG 1 2663 2663

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IFW now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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