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. 2022 Jan 6;20(1):e3001520. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001520

Fig 5. Early-stage research is more frequent within genome biology publications.

Fig 5

(A) Share of publications highlighting at least 1 gene aggregated by age of highlighted gene and by decade that are categorized as genome biology. (B) Sources of novel gene target extracted manually for 20 randomly selected publications from 2015 to 2018 that highlight a new gene between 2015 and 2018 but were not categorized as genome biology. (C) Mean number of authors on 2010 to 2018 publications highlighting at least 1 gene aggregated by age of highlighted gene and field categorization (“G” for genome biology and “NG” for nongenome biology). (D) Mean number of highlighted genes for 2010 to 2018 publications highlighting at least 1 gene aggregated by age of highlighted gene and field categorization. (E) Share of highly cited 2010 to 2018 publications highlighting at least 1 gene aggregated by age of highlighted gene and field categorization. Gene ages at publication are grouped identically in all panels and as shown in legend of panel A. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals inferred by bootstrap. Dashed line shows 5% baseline. Combines data from MEDLINE, NCBI gene and taxonomy information, gene2pubmed, and PubTator. For data underlying the figure, see https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-b5bm-3b17.