Table 1. Gold OA journal APC changes over time.

A selection of gold OA biology journals for which 2019 APC data were published (Krzton, 2019) are compared to 2022 APC amounts recorded as part of the present study to illustrate general APC increase over time. All amounts are listed in US currency.

Journal	2019 APC	2022 APC
Genome Biology	3,490	5,030
Nature Communications	5,200	5,790
PLoS Biology	3,000	5,300
Scientific Reports	1,790	2,090
Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation	1,680	2,475
Frontiers in Plant Science	2,950	2,950
Ecology and Evolution	1,950	2,200
PeerJ	1,095	1,395