How transformative are transformative agreements? Evidence from Germany across disciplines

Table 9 Largest publishers by ‘multidisciplinary’ publications from German authors

Publisher	#Papers	Share (%)	Cum. (%)
Elsevier	9724	27.16	27.16
MDPI	4750	13.27	40.43
Wiley [DEAL]	4645	12.98	53.41
American Chemical Society*	3768	10.53	63.93
Springer Nature [DEAL]	3315	9.26	73.19
Royal Society of Chemistry*	1489	4.16	77.35
Institute of Physics*	1284	3.59	80.94
American Physical Society*	1180	3.30	84.24
American Institute of Physics*	585	1.63	85.87
Electrochemical Society*	566	1.58	87.45
Other	4,493	12.55	100
Total	35,798

The asterisk signs publishers which have concluded transformative agreements with German consortia aside from the DEAL that are active in at least one year in 2019–2022 and cover at least 100 expected publications. Springer Nature and Wiley are exempt as they closed the DEAL. The label ‘multidisciplinary’ captures those observations that occur at least in two different disciplines in the dataset. Overall time window: 2016–2022