Table 3.

MIR in the 7 PLOS journals: percentage of articles that contain sentences with at least N references

Journal	$N=1$ (%)	$N=2$ (%)	$N=3$ (%)	$N=4$ (%)	$N=5$ (%)	$N=10$ (%)	$N=15$ (%)	$N=20$ (%)
PLOS Biology	100.00	100.00	99.37	95.50	84.38	18.98	3.71	1.03
PLOS Comp. Biology	100.00	100.00	99.49	95.51	85.98	25.31	6.76	1.91
PLOS Genetics	100.00	99.97	99.44	95.58	83.68	17.28	3.43	0.91
PLOS Medicine	100.00	100.00	98.27	88.88	75.92	22.25	10.80	6.91
PLOS N. Trop. Diseases	100.00	99.89	97.28	90.06	74.25	15.12	3.20	1.01
PLOS Pathogens	100.00	99.97	99.56	94.62	81.45	15.42	2.35	0.71
PLOS ONE	99.95	99.90	98.59	91.34	76.64	17.26	4.34	1.60