Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) 2022 APC data integrated
15 Dec 2023The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
When reporting their publication costs, the UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The UFZ Library manages the institute’s expenditures for Open Access publishing.
Contact person is Ilka Rudolf.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 166 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 332 026€ and the average fee is 2 000€.
The following table shows the payments the UFZ has made to publishers in 2022.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 44 | 71650 | 1628 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 32 | 67105 | 2097 |
| Elsevier BV | 29 | 77822 | 2684 |
| Springer Nature | 17 | 36361 | 2139 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 11 | 16899 | 1536 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 13857 | 1540 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 7056 | 1764 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 7441 | 1860 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 3855 | 1285 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 6821 | 2274 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 5429 | 2714 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 7516 | 3758 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 2 | 2142 | 1071 |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 3275 | 3275 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2443 | 2443 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd | 1 | 2105 | 2105 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the UFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
