GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung joins OpenAPC

The 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 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by GSI covers publication fees for 30 articles, total expenditure amounts to 67,152€ and the average fee is 2,238€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
American Physical Society (APS) 5 9325 1865
Elsevier BV 5 12811 2562
Frontiers Media SA 4 10617 2654
Springer Nature 4 10997 2749
MDPI AG 3 4431 1477
Optica Publishing Group 3 5736 1912
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 4805 2403
AIP Publishing 1 3149 3149
American Astronomical Society 1 2159 2159
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2403 2403
Wiley-Blackwell 1 720 720

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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