Rippling Ideas

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Published March 30, 2026 | Version v2
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State of Preprints in the Life Sciences

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  • 1. Rippling Ideas

Description

This is the report for the State of Preprints in the Life Sciences, investigating preprinting from 2013-2025 and the likely trends in 2026. The underlying code and figures are available from GitHub. The openrxivR package developed for this project can be downloaded from GitHub. Slides associated with this talk containing individual figures are available here.

 

Version 2 includes an update to Fig 7, adding a year on year change in the number of preprints posted to bioRxiv. This also includes a small update to the executive summary.

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Repository URL
https://github.com/Rippling-Ideas/state_of_preprints/
Programming language
R