Figure 1
Percentage of articles per year citing R in top Ecology journals (5,800 articles out of 42,659). Data from Web of Science for 2008–2018.
Figure 2
Proportion of Archaeology articles per year citing R (a total of 154 out of 42,991 articles in our sample for 2008–2018). Labels to the right show journals in our sample with more than five articles that cite R Sub-plot shows articles published in the Journal of Archaeological Science during 2008–2017. Data from Web of Science.
Figure 3
Comparing the frequency of words used in titles of archaeology articles (41,645 words in 43,044 articles). Words located above the red line are found more frequently in articles that cite R, compared to words located below the red line.
Figure 4
Articles in archaeology journals using R for reproducible research, and making code files openly available to accompany the published article (n = 85).
Figure 5
Median citation rates per year for archaeology articles 2010–2017 that cite R (n = 216) and articles that do not cite R (n = 42,828). On average, articles citing R have higher numbers of citations (m = 10.1) than articles that do not (m = 6.5), t(158) = 3.38, p = 0.00092.
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