Over the past decade now there has been a shift away from “gated” model of scientific publication. One of the models has been to imitate what fields such as physics, computer science, and economics, have been doing for a while now, and focus on preprints. See Joe Pickrell’s posts Genomes Unzipped for the general argument, and Haldane’s Sieve as a model of how it might play out. Hopi Hoekstra pointed me to a trend on bioRxiv on who is putting up preprints:
- Biochemistry (5)
- Bioengineering (2)
- Bioinformatics (52)
- Biophysics (12)
- Cancer Biology (8)
- Cell Biology (14)
- Developmental Biology (8)
- Ecology (29)
- Evolutionary Biology (66)
- Genetics (20)
- Genomics (39)
- Immunology (7)
- Microbiology (7)
- Molecular Biology (6)
- Molecular Medicine (0)
- Neuroscience (19)
- Paleontology (0)
- Pathology (1)
- Pharmacology (0)
- Physiology (1)
- Plant Biology (8)
- Scientific Communication (1)
- Synthetic Biology (11)
- Systems Biology (13)
- Zoology (3)
No surprise.