Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 2022 APC data integrated

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 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (FHG) (Fraunhofer Society) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

In the past, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has already made APC expenditures available to OpenAPC. This data originates from the central Fraunhofer Publication Fund.

Contact Person is Stefanie Seeh.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Fraunhofer covers publication fees for 298 articles, total expenditure amounts to 539,727€ and the average fee is 1,811€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 204 351452 1723
Springer Nature 34 60094 1767
Frontiers Media SA 18 46796 2600
Elsevier BV 13 27856 2143
Wiley-Blackwell 12 22057 1838
Optica Publishing Group 4 6811 1703
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5520 1840
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 4333 2166
SAGE Publications 2 2689 1345
American Society for Microbiology 1 1971 1971
BioResources 1 1498 1498
Impact Journals, LLC 1 3607 3607
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1706 1706
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1715 1715
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1623 1623

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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