Cross-disciplinary citations through time.

<p>(A) Citations from papers in ecology journals to papers in each journal community. (B) Citations from papers in veterinary journals to papers in each journal community. (C) Citations from papers in Group 3 journals to papers in each journal community. Shaded regions are 95% confidence intervals from a Poisson generalized additive model fit to each journal community's time series. Data to generate this figure are contained in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002448#pbio.1002448.s001" target="_blank">S1 Data</a>.</p

Citation benefits of author diversity.

<p>Associations between author diversity and citation rate for papers in each journal community. Model estimates are derived from a Poisson mixed effects model with an offset term for years since publication, and coefficient estimates are reported in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002448#pbio.1002448.s018" target="_blank">S8 Table</a>. Predictions are calculated for papers published in 2010, with 25% of citations to other journal communities and 75% of citations to the paper’s own community. Data to generate this figure are contained in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002448#pbio.1002448.s001" target="_blank">S1 Data</a>.</p

Participant diversity and publication growth.

<p>(A) Proportion of lead author affiliation disciplines across all 1,551 papers published in journals in the three major journal communities. “Math” here encompasses “math” and “stat” affiliations; “ecol” encompasses “eco,” “evo,” and “biol” affiliations; “vet” captures “vet,” “animal health,” and “animal science;” “Med” captures “med” and pharmacy affiliations. (B) Number of papers captured by our search through time. Blue = veterinary community; gold = ecology community; red = group 3. Numbers are the annual percent growth rate within each community. Data to generate this figure are contained in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002448#pbio.1002448.s001" target="_blank">S1 Data</a>.</p

Model objectives from the three journal communities.

<p>(A) Study system: agricultural (domestic animals), human, hypothetical, plant, or wildlife. (B) Applied, basic science, or management objectives by community. “Applied science” was used to describe scenarios in which basic science questions were addressed using systems of management interest. (C) Predictive or descriptive modeling intent. Error bars depict 95% binomial confidence bounds. Data to generate this figure are contained in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002448#pbio.1002448.s002" target="_blank">S2 Data</a>.</p