Sticker Shock 2: Cost-Per-Use
Cost per use - what does it mean?
Cost per use refers to the 2007 subscription price of the journal divided by the number of times a journal article is downloaded in either PDF or HTML format during 2007. In addition, this table shows publisher, cost per use, cost per page, and impact factor for each journal title. The last title is published by a society and shown for comparison.
| Title | Publisher | Subscription Price |
Cost per Use | Cost per Page | JCR Impact Factor* |
Eigenfactor** |
| Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Elsevier | $9,069 | $15.37 | $1.78 | 2.015 | .041864 |
| International Journal of Solids and Structures | Elsevier | $7,833 | $14.75 | $.89 | 1.529 | .052242 |
| Journal of Applied Polymer Science | Wiley & Sons | $16,157 | $8.65 | $3.77 | 1.306 | .074185 |
| Journal of Membrane Science | Elsevier | $7,506 | $7.07 | $1.59 | 3.442 | .049919 |
| Materials Science & Engineering (all 4 parts) | Elsevier | $17,986 | $7.70 | $1.51 | n/a | n/a |
| Materials Science & Enginering A | Elsevier | $9,799 | $7.01 | $1.03 | 1.490 | .10767 |
| Materials Science & Engineering B | Elsevier | $4,505 | $11.73 | $5.20 | 1.331 | .035263 |
| Materials Science & Engineering C | Elsevier | $2,265 | $4.99 | $1.49 | 1.325 | .011541 |
| Materials Science & Engineering R | Elsevier | $1,418 | $14.04 | $3.65 | 17.731 | .016211 |
| Proceedings of the IEEE | IEEE | 3.686 | .050202 | |||
| IEEE Digital Library (IEEE xplore), publications, standards, books | IEEE | $111,200 | $1.39 |
*JCR Impact Factor - is from Web of Science's Journal Citation Reports and a measure of the journal's prestige based on per article citations.
**Eigenfactor.org publishes a similar impact factor that is a measure of the journal's prestige based on per article citations and Google rankings.
