Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind
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Analysis of 72,644 biomedical preprints posted to bioRxiv between 2018 and 2025 found that 39.9% of main conclusions remained unchanged after peer review, with 50% undergoing only minor revisions; papers that appeared first as preprints are retracted at roughly half the rate of papers without prior preprint posting.
The study itself has not yet been peer reviewed.
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