Preprints growth rate ten times higher than journal articles - Crossref

Great post looking into stats on preprints in crossref. Headline takeaways, preprint registration into crossref is 10x that of article growth, but it’s hard to read a lot into that as the absolute numbers are so different at the moment 2.4M per month (published articles) vs 10k per month (preprints). There is also some interesting data on preprint citations, preprint citations come in at best at a level of about 10% of the citations to the subsequently published article. Would be interesting to do some longitudinal studies on this.

https://www.crossref.org/blog/preprints-growth-rate-ten-times-higher-than-journal-articles/