Article processing charge (APC)

The present study aims to analyze relationship between Citations Normalized Score (NCS) of scientific publications and Article Processing Charges (APCs) amounts of Gold Open access publications. To do so, we use APCs information provided by OpenAPC database and citations scores of publications in the Web of Science database (WoS). (…) »

« This study examines trends in open access article processing charges (APCs) from 2011 – 2021, building on a 2011 study by Solomon & Björk (2012). Two methods are employed, a modified replica and a status update of the 2011 journals. Data is drawn from multiple sources and datasets are available…

« Depuis 2017, le Cirad calcule et restitue via le consortium Couperin ses dépenses annuelles pour publier des articles en libre accès dans des revues avec APC (Articles Processing Charges).
En 2020, le Cirad a dépensé 145 409 € d’APC pour publier en libre accès 86 articles, soit un coût…

« This study examines trends in open access article processing charges (APCs) from 2011 – 2021, building on a 2011 study by Solomon & Björk (2012). Two methods are employed, a modified replica and a status update of the 2011 journals. Data is drawn from multiple sources and datasets are available…

« Journal impact factors, publication charges and assessment of quality and accuracy of scientific research are critical for researchers, managers, funders, policy makers, and society. (…)
We review and comment on the advantages and disadvantages of a range of assessment methods and the way in which they are used by…

« Objective To estimate the financial costs paid by individual medical researchers from meeting the article processing charges (APCs) levied by open access journals in 2019.

Design Cross-sectional analysis.

Data sources Scopus was used to generate two random samples of researchers, the first with a senior author article…

« Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces that RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC), its market-leading, comprehensive scholarly communications workflow solution trusted by more than 30 leading publishers representing 2,400 journals, is now being used to…

« (…) The Public Library of Science (PLOS) announced today it is using RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its Community Action Publishing (CAP) model, which aims to eliminate author APCs in order to make its OA journals truly Open to Read and Open…

« Le consortium Couperin avait engagé l’année dernière la démarche de modification de la nomenclature NACRES pour faciliter le repérage des dépenses liées à la publication ouverte, notamment les dépenses d’article processing charges (APC). La nouvelle version de la classification NACRES, en vigueur depuis janvier 2021 intègre ces modifications. Pour faciliter…

« EGU journals currently calculate article processing charges (APCs) based on a cost per page of the final published journal article. This creates two specific problems:

An increasing number of institutions and funders place a limit on the APC that they will fund. Often, they also specify that their support is…