Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 4 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

APC expenditures for 4 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 2 of them reporting for the first time.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 150 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 242,165€ and the average fee is 1,614€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

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 52 70764 1361
Springer Nature 19 31640 1665
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 15 23110 1541
Frontiers Media SA 13 31146 2396
Elsevier BV 12 24397 2033
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 12414 1379
Informa UK Limited 7 13785 1969
Copernicus GmbH 6 10079 1680
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 4 3010 752
Wiley-Blackwell 4 5123 1281
American Meteorological Society 1 2175 2175
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1858 1858
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1500 1500
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2788 2788
SAGE Publications 1 1161 1161
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1 2333 2333
PeerJ 1 1013 1013
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 895 895
AIP Publishing 1 2975 2975

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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