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. 2019 Apr 24;8:e45133. doi: 10.7554/eLife.45133

Figure 2. The distribution of all recorded downloads of bioRxiv preprints.

(a) The downloads recorded in each month, with each line representing a different year. The lines reflect the same totals as the height of the bars in Figure 2b. (b) A stacked bar plot of the downloads in each month. The height of each bar indicates the total downloads in that month. Each stacked bar shows the number of downloads in that month attributable to each category; the colors of the bars are described in the legend in Figure 1. Inset: A histogram showing the site-wide distribution of downloads per preprint, as of the end of November 2018. The median download count for a single preprint is 279, marked by the yellow dashed line. (c) The distribution of downloads per preprint, broken down by category. Each box illustrates that category’s first quartile, median, and third quartile (similar to a boxplot, but whiskers are omitted due to a long right tail in the distribution). The vertical dashed yellow line indicates the overall median downloads for all preprints. (d) Cumulative downloads over time of all preprints in each category. The top seven categories at the end of the plot (November 2018) are labeled using the same category color-coding as above.

Figure 2—source data 1. A list of every preprint, its bioRxiv category, and its total downloads.
elife-45133-fig2-data1.csv (911.8KB, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.021
Figure 2—source data 2. The number of downloads per month in each bioRxiv category, plus running totals.
elife-45133-fig2-data2.csv (54KB, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.022
Figure 2—source data 3. An Excel workbook demonstrating the formulas used to calculate the running totals in Figure 2—source data 2.
elife-45133-fig2-data3.xlsx (379.7KB, xlsx)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.023
Figure 2—source data 4. The number of downloads per month overall, plus running totals.
elife-45133-fig2-data4.csv (869B, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.024

Figure 2.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1. The distribution of downloads that preprints accrue in their first months on bioRxiv.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1—source data 1. Monthly download counts for each bioRxiv preprint for each of its first 12 months.
elife-45133-fig2-figsupp1-data1.csv (6.4MB, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.013
Figure 2—figure supplement 2. The proportion of downloads that preprints accrue in their first months on bioRxiv.

Figure 2—figure supplement 2.

Figure 2—figure supplement 3. Multiple perspectives on per-preprint download statistics.

Figure 2—figure supplement 3.

Figure 2—figure supplement 3—source data 1. The download counts for each bioRxiv preprint in its first month online.
elife-45133-fig2-figsupp3-data1.csv (599.4KB, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.016
Figure 2—figure supplement 3—source data 2. Maximum monthly download count for each bioRxiv preprint.
elife-45133-fig2-figsupp3-data2.csv (519KB, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.017
Figure 2—figure supplement 3—source data 3. A list of each bioRxiv preprint and how many downloads it received in 2018.
elife-45133-fig2-figsupp3-data3.csv (527.9KB, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.018
Figure 2—figure supplement 4. Total downloads per preprint, segmented by the year in which each preprint was posted.

Figure 2—figure supplement 4.

Figure 2—figure supplement 4—source data 1. A list of each bioRxiv preprint and how many downloads it received in each year it was online.
elife-45133-fig2-figsupp4-data1.csv (538.6KB, csv)
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.45133.020