Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 4 institutions
26 Jul 2023The 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.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 115 articles, total expenditure amounts to 232,966€ and the average fee is 2,026€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- IFREMER
- INSA de Lyon
- Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Sciences Po Paris
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 24 | 54161 | 2257 |
| MDPI AG | 20 | 31307 | 1565 |
| Elsevier BV | 18 | 28549 | 1586 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 38414 | 2561 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 11695 | 1671 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 17803 | 2543 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 16371 | 3274 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 7700 | 2567 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 3429 | 1714 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3344 | 1672 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 4132 | 2066 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1475 | 738 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1558 | 779 |
| AAAS | 1 | 3903 | 3903 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1325 | 1325 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2666 | 2666 |
| Annex Publishers | 1 | 493 | 493 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 1875 | 1875 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2767 | 2767 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
