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. 2020 Jul 27;9:e58496. doi: 10.7554/eLife.58496

Figure 4. Preprint outcomes.

Figure 4.

All panels include countries with at least 100 senior-author preprints. (a) A box plot indicating the number of downloads per preprint for each country. The dark line in the middle of the box indicates the median, and the ends of each box indicate the first and third quartiles, respectively. ‘Whiskers’ and outliers were omitted from this plot for clarity. The red line indicates the overall median. (b) A plot showing the relationship (Spearman’s ρ = 0.485, p=0.00274) between total preprints and downloads. Each point represents a single country. The x-axis indicates the total number of senior-author preprints attributed to the country. The y-axis indicates the median number of downloads for those preprints. (c) A plot showing the relationship (Spearman’s ρ = 0.777, p=2.442 × 10−8) between downloads and publication rate. Each point represents a single country. The x-axis indicates the median number of downloads for all preprints listing a senior author affiliated with that country. The y-axis indicates the proportion of preprints posted before 2019 that have been published. (d) A bar plot indicating the proportion of preprints posted before 2019 that are now flagged as ‘published’ on the bioRxiv website. The x-axis (and color scale) indicates the proportion, and the y-axis lists each country. The red line indicates the overall publication rate.

Figure 4—source data 1. Published pre-2019 preprints by country.
Each row represents a country, sorted in descending order by the ‘published’ and ‘total’ columns. The ‘country’ column indicates the country name as recorded in the ROR dataset. ‘total’ lists the number of preprints last updated prior to 2019 that list a senior author who declared an affiliation in the specified country. ‘published’ lists, of the preprints counted in the ‘total’ column, the number that are listed as published on the bioRxiv website.
Figure 4—source data 2. Publication rates and DOI usage.
Each row represents a country, sorted alphabetically. The ‘doi_rate’ field lists the percentage of published papers from that country issued a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), according to Boudry and Chartron, 2017. The ‘pub_rate’ field lists the proportion of preprints from that country posted before 2019 that have been published.