We track research that shifts science.
Before journals decide. Before citations accrue. Before funding trends catch up.
Across every field of research, disruptive ideas now surface in preprints—unpublished manuscripts shared in public repositories. These early versions often contain the most important work of a scientist’s career: a novel finding, a theoretical shift, a contradiction that reveals the limits of an existing model.
But with tens of thousands of preprints posted each week, the signal is buried. Impactful work is missed. Redundant studies are funded. Journals struggle to stay ahead of relevance. And funders often discover the most strategic research only after it’s been absorbed into the literature.
Preprint Watch was founded to solve this strategic blind spot—not by replacing peer review, but by detecting early conceptual significance as it happens.
We built a system designed to continuously monitor global preprint output across disciplines, and to prioritize the research most likely to alter the trajectory of a field. Instead of relying on keyword trends or social metrics, Preprint Watch evaluates papers based on how they challenge, extend, or destabilize existing scientific frameworks.
At the core of our engine is a classification architecture informed by the logic of paradigm development in science: stable periods of model-building, followed by drift, contradiction, disruption, and eventually, replacement. Each preprint is assessed in context—where it fits in the intellectual landscape, and how it might reshape it.
This is not a scoring system. It’s a way of reading science structurally.
Team
Gareth Dyke
Co-founderStanding among the few global publishing leaders to bridge both sides of scholarly communication—as a prolific researcher (370+ peer-reviewed papers, including Nature and Science), former Editor-in-Chief at Taylor & Francis, and architect of author education programs spanning Asia to Europe. His career at the nexus of research, publishing strategy, and academic outreach makes him a uniquely valuable force driving the future of scholarly impact.
Khalid Saqr
Co-founderVeteran computer simulation engineer and a Stanford Top 2% Scientist, with deep R&D experience spanning academia and PE-backed medical device companies. Since 2021, his cross-cultural initiatives through KNOWDYN have contributed to science and technology policymaking in the MENA region. His published books and advisory roles reflect a forward-thinking commitment to improve the welfare of intellectual labor worldwide.
Sponsored by KNOWDYN
Preprint Watch is an independent initiative sponsored by KNOWDYN, a metascience powerhouse focused on the future of knowledge systems, scientific integrity, and the early detection of high-value research.