#preprints
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #preprints from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #preprints
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-15 04:04 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-15 04:04 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-15 04:04 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3813 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (33) · French (2) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.9
Top of the latest posts
New study: "#Preprints are increasingly treated as legitimate, autonomous objects of #citation independent of their later publication status." https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25220v1 PS: I'm fine with this, and so are the authors of this study.
@Illuminatus Oh yes, the academic journals have been a focus of discussion for decades now. For example, #preprints (1990s) and #openaccess journals (2000s) were launched as consequences of these discuissions. However, none of these develop
📢 The Conference Reader is out! It includes #preprints of the papers presented at #CCLS2026 in Potsdam, May 28-29. 📄 DOIs for individual papers: jcls.io/site/ccls2026/ 📒 Download the full reader: jcls.io/media/journals/12/CCLS2026_Confer
What “preprints” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediapreprints
- nounA preliminary form of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a journal
- verbTo print in advance.
In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available for free, before or after a paper is published in a journal.
“Preprint” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#preprints across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #preprints straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/preprints