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. 2017 May 23;8(3):e00438-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00438-17

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FIG 1 — Summary of microbiology-affiliated preprints since the creation of bioRxiv. (A) The total number of preprints posted for each quarter ending 31 March 2017 has largely tracked the overall submission of preprints to bioRxiv. (B) The Altmetric attention scores of preprints posted to bioRxiv are similar to those published in mBio since November 2013, indicating that preprints engender a similar level of attention. (C) The numbers of times preprints that were published in 2014 and 2015 have been cited are similar to the numbers of citations for papers published in mBio in 2014 and 2015, indicating that published preprints are frequently cited. Regions with common background shading in panel A are from the same year. The vertical lines in panels B and C indicate the median Altmetric attention score and the median number of citations.