ArticleeLife2019
Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints.
Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
72 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Building a synthesis-ready research ecosystem: fostering collaboration and open science to accelerate biomedical translation.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical Decision Support and Natural Language Processing in Medicine: Systematic Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Open Science Practices in Systematic Reviews From 2014 to 2024: A Cohort Study of 300 Systematic Reviews.Cochrane evidence synthesis and methods · 2026Article
- PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Why Euglenozoans.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Preprint policies across journals and publishers in ecology and evolutionary biology.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Leveraging artificial intelligence in the peer review of neurosurgical research articles.Neurosurgical review · 2025Article
- Critical Analysis of Preprints and Inquiry-Based Lessons Improve the Synthetic Biology Learning Experience.ACS synthetic biology · 2025Article
- The academic impact of Open Science: a scoping review.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- The probability of edge existence due to node degree: a baseline for network-based predictions.GigaScience · 2024Article
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- Open Science Practices in Psychiatric Genetics: A Primer.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Review
- Full publication of preprint articles in prevention research: an analysis of publication proportions and results consistency.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Understanding the Consumption of Antimicrobial Resistance-Related Content on Social Media: Twitter Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Assessing the publishing priorities and preferences among STEM researchers at a large R1 institution.Heliyon · 2023Article
- The probability of edge existence due to node degree: a baseline for network-based predictions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- The rise of preprints in earth sciences.F1000Research · 2023Article
- Pandemic scientific data sharing recommendations: examining and re-imagining pre-print servers after the end of the world-wide emergency.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2023Article
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12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The growth of preprints in the life sciences has been reported widely and is driving policy changes for journals and funders, but little quantitative information has been published about preprint usage. Here, we report how we collected and analyzed data on all 37,648 preprints uploaded to bioRxiv.org, the largest biology-focused preprint server, in its first five years. The rate of preprint uploads to bioRxiv continues to grow (exceeding 2,100 in October 2018), as does the number of downloads (1.1 million in October 2018). We also find that two-thirds of preprints posted before 2017 were later published in peer-reviewed journals, and find a relationship between the number of downloads a preprint has received and the impact factor of the journal in which it is published. We also describe Rxivist.org, a web application that provides multiple ways to interact with preprint metadata.
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Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.