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In our report on preprinting, we made 7 key recommendations for preprint advocacy across 2026. These are vital to encourage continued adoption and meaningful change.
We're actively seeking funding/collaborations to achieve these together, get in touch if that's you!
Check them out!
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In our report on preprinting, we made 7 key recommendations for preprint advocacy across 2026. These are vital to encourage continued adoption and meaningful change.
We're actively seeking funding/collaborations to achieve these together, get in touch if that's you!
Check them out!
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In 2025 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprints surpassed 1 billion cumulative views and downloads! 🎉🎉🎉
How many of those did your preprint contribute?
Read more in our report: https://zenodo.org/records/18329972
For evaluated preprints on bioRxiv a significant number are published in eLife.
Is @elife.bsky.social reviewing these preprints again? Or using the reviews from these other services?
(I'd love to know as I can't get that from public data & policies suggest re-reviewing)
Releasing on the 30th Jan is our (very) detailed report on the state of preprints in the life sciences. This is the first in a yearly series we plan to run and includes the most up to date data in addition to look towards 2026.
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But, even more interestingly, the preprint review services do not (on average) provide evaluations that much quicker than journals - with the average delay between preprint posting & evaluation being 215 days.
Importantly, community-focussed efforts are much quicker than journal-like efforts
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On average, preprints on bioRxiv are posted 255 days before they appear in a journal. That's a huge acceleration of research.
Don't forget, ~70% of bioRxiv preprints are eventually published, but just because a preprint may remain a preprint, this does not speak to the quality of the article.
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On bioRxiv, authors can choose which licence to give their preprint.
Unfortunately, understanding of what the licences mean is still relatively poor, with most opting for closed licences.
But, this appears to be opening up as of 2025, based on bioRxiv data
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What's coming up from Rippling Ideas in 2026? Here's an overview of our plans (subject to funding).
Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know as these develop (https://bit.ly/RIsub) and also recieve our state of preprints report at the end of Jan!
Releasing on the 31st Jan is our (very) detailed report on the state of preprints in the life sciences. This is the first in a yearly series we plan to run and includes the most up to date data in addition to look towards 2026.
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