Elsevier's mathematics journal pricing comparison with the American Mathematical Society

Journal                              2013 price -- 2013 articles -- Price/Article --  5year IF -- Price/Article/IF

J. Functional Analysis       $3218            221                     $14.56                   1.33                10.95

Comput. Geometry            $1162              87                     $13.36                   0.64                20.88

Discrete Mathematics        $3982            347                     $11.48                   0.58                19.79

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Math. Computation              $524            103                     $5.09                     1.56                 3.26

Trans. Am. Math. Soc.         $1881          230                     $8.18                     1.13                 7.24

On the basis of the price/article … a reasonable subscription price (based on AMS pricing) for Elsevier’s Computational Geometry should be ~$443

Assuming that Elsevier’s publication process is as efficient as that of the AMS … Elsevier is garnering an excess profit of over 164% on this title.