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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.