ArticleeLife2020
International authorship and collaboration across bioRxiv preprints.
Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication.PloS one · 2023Article
- Evaluation of Publication of COVID-19-Related Articles Initially Presented as Preprints.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- A guide to preprinting for early-career researchers.Biology open · 2022Article
- Public human microbiome data are dominated by highly developed countries.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Motivations, concerns and selection biases when posting preprints: A survey of bioRxiv authors.PloS one · 2022Article
- Preprinting is positively associated with early career researcher status in ecology and evolution.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Highlights of the ERS Lung Science Conference and Sleep and Breathing Conference 2021 and the new ECMC members.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2021Article
- Preparing for tenure at a research-intensive university.BMC proceedings · 2021Review
- The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review-A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists.PloS one · 2021Article
- Open Science in Kenya: Where Are We?Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2021Article
- Day-to-day discovery of preprint-publication links.Scientometrics · 2021Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
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Abstract
Preprints are becoming well established in the life sciences, but relatively little is known about the demographics of the researchers who post preprints and those who do not, or about the collaborations between preprint authors. Here, based on an analysis of 67,885 preprints posted on bioRxiv, we find that some countries, notably the United States and the United Kingdom, are overrepresented on bioRxiv relative to their overall scientific output, while other countries (including China, Russia, and Turkey) show lower levels of bioRxiv adoption. We also describe a set of 'contributor countries' (including Uganda, Croatia and Thailand): researchers from these countries appear almost exclusively as non-senior authors on international collaborations. Lastly, we find multiple journals that publish a disproportionate number of preprints from some countries, a dynamic that almost always benefits manuscripts from the US.
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