GRIP-APC project releases open dataset of findings of an international survey  on APC and publishing practices (Latin America and Africa)

 The results of the international survey conducted by the GRIP-APC project are now openly available to the project community on Zenodo

 Between 2023 and 2024, a team of international researchers, led by Fernanda Beigel (CECIC-CONICET) and funded by the Global Research institut of Paris, studied the impact of article processing charges (APCs) in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The results of the first phase of the project offer insight into how scientists in non-hegemonic contexts respond to transformations in the publishing ecosystem resulting from the development of open access.

The study collected primary data from 13,577 responses to an online questionnaire administered to scientific researchers in four target countries between August 2023 and February 2024. The main objective of this survey was to gather detailed information about researchers’ positions in their national fields, their publishing practices, access to funding, and their perceptions of open access and article processing charges (APCs). The research team  designed the survey and translated it into Portuguese and Spanish, incorporating adaptations to each country’s scientific systems and career guidelines. Respondent confidentiality was prioritized, with all sensitive information removed from the dataset prior to publication.

The GRIP-APC study has generated a comprehensive set of resources that broaden our understanding of open access publishing in the Global South. Key results include an open database with the survey, references to articles in indexed journals on APC practices and national funding agency policies, a technical report on the context in Brazil, and preprints that preview future scientific communications by the team. Together, these contributions provide a better understanding of the ways in which researchers in Latin America and Africa are facing the new trends in scientific communication. At the same time, they offer recommendations on how to address the challenges thatthe commercial business models interpose to equitable participation in the circulation of knowledge.

All results are openly available in the project’s Zenodo Community. Below is a list of all the resources related to the project that are openly available. 

References and list of members below

References

Gallardo, O., Appel, A. L., Bruccoleri Ochoa, M., GRIP-APC, T., Milia, M., Montoya, V., van Schalkwyk, F., & Beigel, F. (2025). A comparative analysis of open science, access, APC, and circulation of knowledge. A dataset from a survey of researchers in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. [Data set]. Global Research Institute of Paris. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16414892

Appel, A. L., Milia, M., Rodriguez Medina, L., GRIP-APC Team, & Beigel, F. (2025). Saberes y prácticas de publicación en acceso abierto: un estudio comparativo sobre Brasil, Argentina y México. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16461364

Albagli, S., Appel, A. L., Pacanaro Trinca, T., Alves, L. de A., & Leite, N. (2024). Uma Análise Comparativa da Ciência Aberta, do Acesso Aberto e da Circulação de Conhecimento na América Latina e na África: Relatório Preliminar Brasil. Zenodo.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10694976

Beigel, F., Gallardo, O., Gomez, M. S., & Prado, F. C. (2025). Publicación en acceso abierto y costos por Article Processing Charges (APC) en Argentina. Revue D’anthropologie Des Connaissances, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/140pa

Terlizzi, M. S., Zukerfeld, M., & Beigel, F. (2025). Open access, “piracy” and Article Processing Charges (APC) in Argentina: an informed policy for the national research funding agency. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520241184

Soto-Herrera, D. A., Beigel, F., & Pallares Delgado, C. O. (2025). Costos de publicación en acceso abierto bajo el modelo APC: Argentina y Colombia.https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rib.v48n1e357790

Gallardo, O., Milia, M., Appel, A. L., GRIP-APC Team, & van Schalkwyk, F. (2025). When researchers pay to publish: Results from a survey on APCs in four countries. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.12144

Project team

(ORCID number linkage is under names)

Principal investigator Fernanda Beigel is a sociologist and PhD in political and social sciences (2001). She pursued her postdoctoral studies at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne (EHESS, Paris). Chair of the Advisory Committee for Open Science at UNESCO (2020-2021) and current Chair of Argentina’s National Committee for Open Science. Advisor of the Latin American Forum on Research Evaluation (FOLEC-CLACSO). Principal Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, Argentina), Head Professor at the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo) and the Director of the Research Center on the International Circulation of Knowledge (CECIC) https://cecic.fcp.uncuyo.edu.ar/ Relevant scientific awards: Bernardo Houssay Prize (2003), CLACSO Essay Award (2004), Mention of Honour to Scientific Value-Argentine National Senate (2017). Fernanda is member of GRIP’s scientific council since 2021 and she is the Principal Investigator for this project.

André Appel is an Information Scientist working on topics such as open access scholarly journals, scholarly communication, and information management. He is now working as technologist at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict),, a research institute of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. He is willing to collaborate on the development of open access publication strategies, by collecting and providing data supporting the socioeconomic sustainability of open access publication models, focusing on the Diamond OA route.

Sarita Albagli is sociologist and senior Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT). Professor of the Graduate Program of Information Science developed by IBICT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Head of the Open Science and Citizen Innovation Laboratory – CindaLab. Scientific Coordinator of Civis – Citizen Science Platform.
She has led multidisciplinary teams and developed interinstitutional and international projects on Open Science; has supervised more than 40 PhD Thesis, MSc Dissertations and Post-Doctoral Studies in Information Science.
Among other publications, she has edited the book Open Science, Open Issues (2015), Publisher: IBICT; Unirio (Brazil). ISBN: 9788570131119. DOI: 10.18225/978-85-7013-111-9

Larissa Araújo IBICT Brazil.

Rigas Arvanitis is emeritus researcher at IRD, sociologist, member and director of Ceped (IRD-University Paris Cité) (2019-2024) and founding member of GRIP and it’s chair since 2020. He has field experience in Latin America (Venezuela and Mexico), China and Arab countries. He is also founding member of the Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation et Société and was its director (2015-2018). He was editor-in-chief (2007-2014) of the Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances. Previously, his work focused on technological learning in enterprises and the study of technology transfer, research and innovation policies and economic development. He has been interested in research systems in Arab countries (published Knowledge production the Arab World. The impossible promise, with Sari Hanafi) He is interested in research funding methods, forms of scientific collaboration and the transformation of research systems in the South. His last research project has been on research in West Africa. https://rigas.ouvaton.org

Manuel Bruccoleri Ochoa CECIC-UCuyo Argentina. Advanced student in the Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Political Science, National University of Cuyo (FCPyS, UNCuyo). First research experience in projects related to the Memory of the last Argentine Military Dictatorship. Building an open dataset with biographies of victims and disappearances.Currently works with the CECIC team on Open Science. He has been involved in the international survey of the GRIP APC project, ‘A comparative analysis of open science, access and circulation of knowledge in Latin America and Africa‘. He has also been part of the development of cartographies on Open Science. Nowadays, he is participating in the survey of university portals of Diamond Journals, as well as in the team of the recently launched project ‘Diamond Future

Osvaldo Gallardo is a researcher with a PhD in Latin American Social Studies. He is a full-time researcher at CONICET and a professor at the National University of Cuyo (Argentina). He has focused on academic mobility, language skills in scientific publications and the structure of peripheral academic fields. Currently, Osvaldo is conducting studies on gender asymmetries, the impact of APC and publishing and assessment practices in the academic field.

Gabriela Isuani, CECIC-Ucuyo Argentina

Matías Milia is sociologist and postdoctoral affiliate at the University of Notre Dame, studying the entanglements of data infrastructures, environmental challenges, knowledge circulation, and future-oriented research from a translational STS perspective. He’s a Research Fellow of the Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP) and has research experience in Argentina, Ecuador, France, and Mexico. Matías serves as a member of the Scientific Committee at the Latin American Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (LALICS). Currently, he’s a researcher at the SEEKCommons initiative, exploring Open Science’s contribution to socio-environmental research and knowledge dissemination with a distributed network of STS scholars, OS practitioners, and socio-environmental researchers.

Victor Montoya CECIC-UNTREF Argentina. Víctor Montoya holds a PhD in International Studies from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina) and a PhD in Economics from Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 (France). His main research topics include university cooperation, the internationalization of higher education, and the circulation and training of elites, with particular attention to linguistic practices and policies. He is currently Research Coordinator at the Laboratorio de Investigación e Innovación en Política y Gestión de Lenguas of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF LINGUA), and a member of the Centro de Estudios de la Circulación del Conocimiento Científico of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (CECIC-UNCuyo).

Marianne Noël is a sociologist/historian trained in STS, with an original background (PhD) and industrial experience in chemistry. She is currently CNRS Research Engineer at Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS, UMR CNRS 9003), Université Gustave Eiffel. In her PhD work in sociology, she developed a socio-historical approach centered on periodicals and circulation of concepts in chemistry journals to understand the economic foundations of Open Access policies, including the mechanisms of APC. CV HAL Profil Google Scholar. She is member of  NanoBubbles ERC Synergy project.

Tatiane Pacanaro is graduated in Social Sciences, is an Analyst in Science and Technology at CAPES — the agency in charge of evaluating research and graduate education in Brazil. There, she works at “Portal de Periódicos”, a Coordination that negotiates subscriptions to scientific journals. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Information Science at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) in association with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Tatiane joined CEPED/Université Paris-Cité in 2023 for a one year research stay. Her topics of interest are: open science, open access, science policies, research evaluation system and asymmetries in the world scientific system.

Ismael Rafols is a senior researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, where he leads the UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science. He works on science policy developing novel approaches to S&T indicators, using mixed-methods for informing evaluation, foresight and research strategies.

Nathaly Cristine Leite Rocha IBICT Brazil

 Leandro Rodriguez Medina is sociologist based in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco (Mexico). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level II) at Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología/CONACYT (Mexico) and has done research on international knowledge circulation with a focus on Latin America. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, an open-access journal sponsored by UCLA and affiliated with the Latin American Association for Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Ariadna Nebot Giralt, UPCité France. Ariadna has been scientific coordinator of the Global Research Institute of Paris since its inception, and the doctoral student at Ceped-Université Paris Cité.

Francois van Schalkwyk is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research interests include higher education studies, science communication and open science as part of an overarching interest in the social dynamics of knowledge production.


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