SNSF provides more APC data for 2019 and 2020

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided additional APC data for the 2019 and 2020 periods.

Within the framework of the SNSF’s OA policy, grantees are required to publish the results of their research in the form of Open Access publications. APC data on those publications is kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person for the SNSF is Christian Gutknecht.

Cost data

The updated data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 759 articles published in 2019 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1 684 650€ and the average fee is 2 220€. The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 202 554339 2744
Frontiers Media SA 117 276865 2366
MDPI AG 101 129959 1287
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 52 94672 1821
Elsevier BV 48 143342 2986
Copernicus GmbH 39 72481 1858
Wiley-Blackwell 27 64406 2385
Optical Society of America (OSA) 20 36675 1834
Oxford University Press (OUP) 16 41097 2569
BMJ 14 26821 1916
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 13 30521 2348
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 12 46862 3905
Informa UK Limited 8 15631 1954
PeerJ 8 7221 903
American Society for Microbiology 7 19273 2753
IOP Publishing 6 10422 1737
SAGE Publications 6 9206 1534
The Royal Society 6 6483 1081
JMIR Publications Inc. 5 9170 1834
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 4 7142 1786
Cogitatio 4 3915 979
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 4 3982 996
F1000 Research, Ltd. 3 2451 817
Life Science Alliance, LLC 3 8073 2691
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 3682 1227
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 1998 999
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 3144 1572
EMBO 2 8376 4188
Genetics Society of America 2 3978 1989
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 3592 1796
Society for Neuroscience 2 5258 2629
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 2 2436 1218
The Company of Biologists 2 4908 2454
The Endocrine Society 2 3159 1579
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1741 1741
AIP Publishing 1 1431 1431
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1459 1459
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2975 2975
American Physical Society (APS) 1 3207 3207
Association Palaeovertebrata 1 1080 1080
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. 1 2231 2231
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1797 1797
EDP Sciences 1 989 989
Joule Inc. 1 2096 2096
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1636 1636
Pensoft Publishers 1 786 786
S. Karger AG 1 1681 1681

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the SNSF 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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