house to waive article processing charges for the group of 47 so-called least developed
countries (LDC). As an example, Springer Nature is selected. The analysis is based on the
Web of Science, OpenAPC and the Jisc Collections' Springer Compact journal list. As a
result, it estimates an average yearly publication output of 520 publications (or 0.26% of the
worldwide publication output in Springer Nature journals) for the LDC country group. The …