The University of Hohenheim has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides APC, BCP and TA data for the 2025 period.
Data is provided by the Communication, Information and Media Center (KIM), which manages services related to Open Access.
Contact person is Isabo Gerstner.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 116 articles (55 unrelated to any agreement, 61 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 244,184€ and the average fee is 2,105€.
The following table provides an overview. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 33 | 56370 | 1708 |
| MDPI AG | 20 | 44407 | 2220 |
| Springer Nature | 17 | 39443 | 2320 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 14 | 37554 | 2682 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 20097 | 2010 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 9225 | 3075 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 11415 | 3805 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 2737 | 1368 |
| Academic Journals | 1 | 691 | 691 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 2731 | 2731 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1006 | 1006 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 2213 | 2213 |
| Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences | 1 | 684 | 684 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1129 | 1129 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 1 | 475 | 475 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2128 | 2128 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2179 | 2179 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 1986 | 1986 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 910 | 910 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 2638 | 2638 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2856 | 2856 |
| Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | 1 | 1309 | 1309 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Hohenheim now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
