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. 2022 Mar 25;17(3):e0264265. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264265

Table 1. Number of subcategories and preprints per category after pre-processing.

In the arXiv repository, preprints are sometimes cross-tagged in several categories. As a result, the number of unique preprints is 307,902.

Category # subcategories # preprints
Biology 34 44454
Computer Science 40 79653
Economics 12 2869
Elec. Eng. Systems Science 4 10686
Health Sciences 52 6100
Mathematics 32 78187
Physics 51 116983
Psychology 14 4120
Social Sciences 5 1938
Statistics 6 22040
Total: 250 367030