Data on the actual use of open data/ open source on pre-prints at arXiv/bioRxiv

Articles submitted (1st edition) to the preprint server arXiv/bioRxiv were converted to text and analysed as follows :

For arXiv articles, nationality was assigned to the manuscript using the first occurrence of the email address in the manuscript.

For bioRxiv articles, we assigned nationality using the country tag information in the metadata about the first author.

We listed the URLs that appeared in each manuscript.

We checked how many articles contained a particular URL (e.g. github; https://github.com ) by year, month and nationality.

This dataset describes the results of the above work.