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1/ Thrilled to finally share the project we've been working on: https://rxivist.org , a website for sorting bioRxiv #preprints based on Twitter and download activity, plus a preprint of our own analyzing data on 37,000+ papers. @blekhmanhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/01/13/515643 …
2/ Our preprint (on @biorxivpreprints, of course) shows the number of papers on bioRxiv doubled in 2018. As noted by @cshperspectives, bioRxiv is now posting more than 2,000 new preprints per month: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/01/10/515643 …pic.twitter.com/Jdehj0An4F
3/ October was also bioRxiv's first million-download month, driven mostly by preprints in #neuroscience, #bioinformatics and #genomics. There are fewer genomics preprints, but they get more downloads per paper than any other category.pic.twitter.com/Z55qlCGEp8
4/ We find that more than 60 percent of preprints posted before 2018 have been published in a peer-reviewed journal, and that preprints with more downloads tend to show up in journals with higher impact factors:pic.twitter.com/dIVykDSmOj
5/ Overall, we found that more than 1,100 journals have published bioRxiv preprints so far. @SciReports has published the most, followed by @eLife and @PLOSONE. Also, most preprints that are published appear in a journal after less than 6 months, though that varies by journal toopic.twitter.com/px0B78Zz0u
6/ But enough spoilers—our preprint (my first!) is live, to my great excitement and terror. Check it out if you're interested in long-term trends in the quantity, readership and publication of biology preprints:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/01/13/515643 …
7/ And our new website may be helpful if you're looking for a way to sift through the bioRxiv avalanche. The most discussed preprints since last week, by @n8_upham @astubbsbio @choongwanwoo @biogerontology @jjtokyo @AstrobioMike @HadanyL @Tolga_Bzkrt et alhttps://www.rxivist.org/?q=&metric=twitter&category=&timeframe=week&page_size=20 …
8/8 And here are the most downloaded preprints of 2018, featuring @vagheesh @DeepMindAI @Numenta @erturklab @TCLamnidis @adamcchang @slinnarsson @ricard_sole @EvNewell1 @computingnature and others:https://www.rxivist.org/top/2018
P.S. By popular demand, we've added a weekly newsletter to http://rxivist.org . It's not fancy (yet?), but every Friday you'll get an email with the most discussed preprints of the week, including links straight to bioRxiv. Tell your friends and nerdier neighbors!
fantastic analysis. recommend using @CrossrefOrg Event Data for tweet archive dating back much further than 2018. #openscholarlyinfrastructure metadata waiting for you to (re)use. example API call for tweets of bioRxiv preprints: http://api.eventdata.crossref.org/v1/events?mailto=YOUR_EMAIL_HERE&rows=10000&source=twitter&obj-id.prefix=10.1101 ….
do check out @CrossrefOrg Event Data User Guide for *all* the details (parameter for collection, evidence of artifacts) as part of research reproducibility: https://www.eventdata.crossref.org/guide/ .
also perhaps of interest: preliminary analysis of where preprints are published: https://www.crossref.org/blog/leaving-the-house-where-preprints-go/ …. this list is slightly different as i was examining across preprint servers using @CrossrefOrg metadata.
Thanks for sharing all this! Was planning on getting in touch to share how we used your data; it's been very helpful. Will definitely check out your post on "Leaving the house"; missed that the first time around.
As for grabbing more historical data, I'm really happy to see it's there! I'm embarrassed to admit that my spot-checks to see how far back it went were... not accurate. i.e.: 2018-07-01 https://api.eventdata.crossref.org/v1/events?obj-id.prefix=10.1101&from-occurred-date=2018-07-01&until-occurred-date=2018-07-01&source=twitter&mailto=rabdill@umn.edu&rows=10000 … 2018-08-01 https://api.eventdata.crossref.org/v1/events?obj-id.prefix=10.1101&from-occurred-date=2018-08-01&until-occurred-date=2018-08-01&source=twitter&mailto=rabdill@umn.edu&rows=10000 … 2018-09-01 https://api.eventdata.crossref.org/v1/events?obj-id.prefix=10.1101&from-occurred-date=2018-09-01&until-occurred-date=2018-09-01&source=twitter&mailto=rabdill@umn.edu&rows=10000 …
That’s what we’re here for... at your service. Let us know if you find any issues with the API or data!
Looks nice. But of course checked my papers ;) and I don’t understand why e.g. this paper https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/24/149203.article-metrics … appears neither in Plant biology, nor in a search on terms of the title. Generally, the search bar seems to give random results, see attached.pic.twitter.com/WQ3Y0EV0hM
Hi! Thanks for checking it out. I'll have to check out why text search is acting funny, but I think that paper may be missing from results because our "all-time" Twitter metrics only go back to September 2018. We definitely need to clarify what that's doing.
For example, if you use downloads instead of Twitter metrics, your paper pops right up (8th in downloads):https://www.rxivist.org/?q=&metric=downloads&category=plant-biology&timeframe=alltime&page_size=20&view=standard …
Thanks for checking. The “all time” information for Twitter is interesting, maybe it could be clarified. Please continue developing interesting tools on top of biorxiv :)
Very interesting! So almost 1 in 3 preprints don't end up ever being published (>2-3yr later)? Sounds high to me - If 1/3 of preprints don't pass muster at any journal, would be very alarming.
There could be lots of more benign explanations, for what it's worth—if a preprint is published with a different title, for example, bioRxiv might not register it as "published." Other preprints might end up as a section in a larger paper, etc.
Possible, but then this is a limitation of the analysis if it drops 1/3 of the papers. I wonder if @biorxiv could run some automated literature search and engage authors to link prospective published papers to preprints.
I believe that's how the linking works now: https://www.biorxiv.org/about/FAQ Will definitely make sure we make that clear in the Methods going forward though, thank you.
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