Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints
Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints
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DOI：
10.7554/elife.45133
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发表时间：
2019-05-10
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影响因子：
7.7
通讯作者：
Blekhman, Ran
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作者：
Abdill, Richard J.;Blekhman, Ran
预印本在生命科学中的增长已被广泛报道，并正在推动期刊和资助者的政策变化，但关于预印本使用的定量信息很少。在这里，我们报告了我们如何收集和分析所有37，648预印本上传到bioRxiv.org，最大的生物学为重点的预印本服务器，在其前五年的数据。预印本上传到bioRxiv的速度继续增长（2018年10月超过2，100），下载量也在增长（2018年10月为110万）。我们还发现，在2017年之前发布的预印本中，有三分之二后来发表在同行评议的期刊上，并发现预印本的下载量与其发表期刊的影响因子之间存在关系。我们还描述了Rxivist.org，一个Web应用程序，提供了多种方式与预印本元数据进行交互。
The growth of preprints in the life sciences has been reported widely and is driving policy changes for journals and funders, but little quantitative information has been published about preprint usage. Here, we report how we collected and analyzed data on all 37,648 preprints uploaded to bioRxiv.org, the largest biology-focused preprint server, in its first five years. The rate of preprint uploads to bioRxiv continues to grow (exceeding 2,100 in October 2018), as does the number of downloads (1.1 million in October 2018). We also find that two-thirds of preprints posted before 2017 were later published in peer-reviewed journals, and find a relationship between the number of downloads a preprint has received and the impact factor of the journal in which it is published. We also describe Rxivist.org, a web application that provides multiple ways to interact with preprint metadata.