Preprint citation rates converge with those of the version of record
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A longitudinal comparison of 240,000 paired preprints and published articles finds the citation gap has narrowed to under nine per cent, down from thirty-one per cent a decade ago. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset together with the code needed to reproduce every figure is deposited under a permissive licence. Limitations, including coverage gaps in non-English sources, are set out in the discussion.
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