Rxivist combines preprints from bioRxiv with data from Twitter to help you find the papers being discussed in your field. Currently indexing 45,784 bioRxiv papers from 206,165 authors.
Site-wide metrics
The numbers below represent the metrics for all papers hosted on bioRxiv.org, based on our indexing of the website.
Monthly submissions, overall
See PrePubMed for a similar chart that puts bioRxiv submissions in context alongside other preprint servers.
Monthly submissions, by category
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Top categories this month
| neuroscience | 357 |
| microbiology | 152 |
| bioinformatics | 145 |
| genomics | 113 |
| cell biology | 108 |
| genetics | 104 |
Monthly downloads
Note that, unlike the submission graphs, this graph does not include the current month. Since per-paper download metrics are updated in our database over time, a month's download count can change up to four weeks after it ends.
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News
- 1 Mar 2019: We now have summary statistics about bioRxiv downloads and submissions.
- 8 Feb 2019: Data from Altmetric is now available on the Rxivist details page for every preprint. Look for the "donut" under the download metrics.
- 30 Jan 2019: preLights has featured the Rxivist preprint and written about our findings.
- 22 Jan 2019: Nature just published an article about Rxivist and our data.
- 13 Jan 2019: The Rxivist preprint is live!