What really happens to research preprints after they hit the digital world? At GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, a dedicated team has documented the journey of over 145,000 bioRxiv preprints, revealing surprising twists and the evolving relationship between speedy online sharing and formal journal publication. The newly released PreprintToPaper dataset shines a light on these hidden scientific stories—but just how many make it all the way to print, and what changes along the way?
Badalova et al. (Thu,) studied this question.