A source-preserving living dataset of psilocybin and psilocin publications, preprints, and trial records

This archive contains version 1.0.0 of the dataset described in the accompanying manuscript, A source-preserving living dataset of psilocybin and psilocin publications, preprints, and trial records. The dataset is a fixed, citable snapshot of public metadata describing research publications, preprints, and clinical trial records related to psilocybin and psilocin. It integrates metadata harvested from multiple public sources, including PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref, OpenAlex, ClinicalTrials.gov, medRxiv, bioRxiv, and PsyArXiv. Records are normalized into a reproducible SQLite database while preserving source-specific metadata, publication status, persistent identifiers, and associated metadata. The archive also includes derived exports (CSV, JSON, BibTeX, and RIS), validation outputs, figures, documentation, reproducibility scripts, checksums, licensing information, and citation metadata. This archived release represents the fixed dataset snapshot analysed in the accompanying manuscript. The live Psilocybin Research Tracker continues to evolve independently and may contain additional records, metadata updates, and software enhancements beyond this archived version. Project website: https://psilocybin-research.com Source code repository: https://github.com/psilocybin-research/psilocybin-research-tracker ## Quick start in R url <- "https://zenodo.org/records/21293526/files/psilocybin-research-dataset-2026-07-09.tar.gz?download=1" tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".tar.gz") download.file(url, tmp, mode = "wb") out <- tempfile() dir.create(out) untar(tmp, exdir = out) csv_file <- list.files(out, pattern = "publications\\.csv$", recursive = TRUE, full.names = TRUE)[1] publications <- read.csv(csv_file, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) nrow(publications) head(publications[, c("title", "publication_date", "doi", "pubmed_id", "source_name", "publication_status")])