This article estimates that "... a total of $8.349 billion ($8.968 billion in 2023 US dollars) were spent on APCs between 2019 and 2023. We estimate that in 2023 MDPI ($681.6 million), Elsevier ($582.8 million) and Springer Nature ($546.6) generated the most revenue with APCs."
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"Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023" by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Madelaine Hare, Leigh-Ann Butler, and Nina Schönfelder
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
#APCs #OpenAccess #CommercialPublishing #SJF2025
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
#APCs #OpenAccess #CommercialPublishing #SJF2025
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