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2024-07-24 15:01 UTC
New preprint is out! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the publication counts per journal-year from @OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last five years.
A: $8.349 billion ($8.968 billion in 2023 US dollars) spent on APCs.
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
We also find that median APCs *paid* are higher than median *listed* fees for both gold (paid: $2,450 vs listed: $2,000) and hybrid ($3,600 vs $3,230).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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@eschares@scholar.social 2024-07-24 15:02
Another great collaboration with colleagues at the #ScholCommLab: @stefhaustein@fediscience.org @juancommander@mastodon.social @leighbutler@mastodon.social , Maddie, and Nina APC dataset: >36,000 data points from 8,712 journals by six publishers, 2019-2023. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CR1MMV.