We welcome the University of Ferrara as new contributing institution!
An initial data set on APC and BPC expenditures for the 2020 to 2024 period has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Emanuela De Luca.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 597 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,231,522€ and the average fee is 2,063€. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 238 | 425940 | 1790 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 74 | 190953 | 2580 |
| Springer Nature | 57 | 164277 | 2882 |
| Elsevier BV | 53 | 117595 | 2219 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 18 | 48760 | 2709 |
| Verduci | 16 | 25376 | 1586 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 15 | 51769 | 3451 |
| Informa UK Limited | 11 | 22238 | 2022 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 21745 | 1977 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 8 | 11476 | 1434 |
| BMJ | 7 | 18811 | 2687 |
| Spandidos Publications | 7 | 14042 | 2006 |
| Firenze University Press | 5 | 1050 | 210 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 8241 | 1648 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 4 | 7823 | 1956 |
| Journal of Infection in Developing Countries | 4 | 1464 | 366 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 6320 | 1580 |
| American Astronomical Society | 3 | 5653 | 1884 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5810 | 1937 |
| Palermo University Press | 3 | 950 | 317 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 | 11252 | 3751 |
| AME Publishing Company | 2 | 2128 | 1064 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 2899 | 1449 |
| Hikari, Ltd. | 2 | 488 | 244 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 5167 | 2583 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 2 | 3920 | 1960 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 2 | 4671 | 2336 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 1194 | 1194 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 5124 | 5124 |
| American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages | 1 | 773 | 773 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1982 | 1982 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 677 | 677 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 808 | 808 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3089 | 3089 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 996 | 996 |
| American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) | 1 | 1023 | 1023 |
| Annali Italiani di Chirurgia | 1 | 769 | 769 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 1095 | 1095 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 6276 | 6276 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 698 | 698 |
| British Institute of Radiology | 1 | 656 | 656 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 567 | 567 |
| Center for Academic Publications Japan | 1 | 670 | 670 |
| Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1 | 976 | 976 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1691 | 1691 |
| Edizioni ETS | 1 | 104 | 104 |
| Edizioni Minerva Medica | 1 | 226 | 226 |
| Edorium Journals Pvt. Ltd. | 1 | 395 | 395 |
| Emerald | 1 | 4181 | 4181 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Herald Scholarly Open Access | 1 | 1698 | 1698 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 1113 | 1113 |
| Lifescience Global | 1 | 813 | 813 |
| Ocean Visionary Publications | 1 | 586 | 586 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2773 | 2773 |
| Pacini Editore | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 780 | 780 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 2104 | 2104 |
| Society of Nuclear Medicine | 1 | 459 | 459 |
| The Korean Magnetics Society | 1 | 337 | 337 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 727 | 727 |
| Virtus Interpress | 1 | 650 | 650 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2440 | 2440 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
