PyRank
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scienceplots

Matplotlib styles for scientific plotting
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

scienceplots has 157K monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 2.2.2 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2020.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of matplotlib. It is used by 62 tracked packages, including geocif, pyemsi and hxy-lib.

GitHub topics include matplotlib-style-sheets, matplotlib-figures and scientific-papers.

Downloads
Day
8.5K
Week
36.6K
Month
157.0K
Stars
9.0K
Forks
817
Issues
7
Version
2.2.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
84
Adoption
61
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
156,987
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
156,987
Stars
9,029
Stars per 1k downloads
57.51
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
5,222
Month daily avg
5,233
Momentum
-0.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
13 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
2.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
14
Monthly downloads
156,987
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
49
 
Issue Burden
0.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.7K
Windows 313
macOS 181

Python Versions

3.12
75.4% 3.1K
3.10
9.2% 380
3.11
7.3% 301
3.14
4.8% 200
3.13
3.4% 139

Top Countries

1. US US
3.8K
2. CN CN
79
3. DE DE
42
4. SG SG
38
5. HK HK
31
6. JP JP
28
7. CH CH
17
8. GB GB
14
9. KR KR
14
10. FR FR
13
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
April 9, 2020
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.2.2
Total Releases
17
Contributors
14
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
matplotlib-style-sheets matplotlib-figures scientific-papers thesis-template matplotlib-styles python
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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