The Oligopoly’s Shift to Open Access. How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Processing Charges

IF 4.1 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Quantitative Science Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI:10.1162/qss_a_00272

Leigh-Ann Butler, Lisa Matthias, Marc-André Simard, Philippe Mongeon, Stefanie Haustein

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Abstract This study aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley between 2015 and 2018. Using publication data from WoS, OA status from Unpaywall and annual APC prices from open datasets and historical fees retrieved via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, we estimate that globally authors paid $1.06 billion in publication fees to these publishers from 2015–2018. Revenue from gold OA amounted to $612.5 million, while $448.3 million was obtained for publishing OA in hybrid journals. Among the five publishers, Springer-Nature made the most revenue from OA ($589.7 million), followed by Elsevier ($221.4 million), Wiley ($114.3 million), Taylor & Francis ($76.8 million) and Sage ($31.6 million). With Elsevier and Wiley making most of APC revenue from hybrid fees and others focusing on gold, different OA strategies could be observed between publishers. Peer Review https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1162/qss_a_00272

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摘要本研究旨在估算五大商业出版商Elsevier、Sage、Springer-Nature、Taylor &弗朗西斯和威利在2015年到2018年之间。使用WoS的出版数据、Unpaywall的OA状态、开放数据集的年度APC价格以及通过Internet Archive Wayback Machine检索的历史费用，我们估计2015-2018年全球作者向这些出版商支付了10.6亿美元的出版费用。黄金OA的收入为6.125亿美元，而在混合期刊上发表OA的收入为4.483亿美元。在这五家出版商中，施普林格-自然从开放获取中获得的收入最多(5.897亿美元)，其次是爱思唯尔(2.214亿美元)、威利(1.143亿美元)、泰勒&弗朗西斯(7680万美元)和塞奇(3160万美元)。由于爱思唯尔和威利的大部分APC收入来自混合收费，而其他出版商则专注于金牌，因此可以看到出版商之间的开放获取策略不同。同行评议https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1162/qss_a_00272

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Quantitative Science Studies INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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12.10

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12.50%

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22 weeks

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