So 6 months before it appears in the journal that accepts it, perhaps ~1 year before submission to a journal that rejects it...
https://quantixed.org/2024/09/24/exploding-impacting-looking-at-biorxiv-preprint-view-dynamics-with-r/ via @clathrin
Not quite - the data are just for the preprint. I don’t think Steve compared absolute numbers of views preprint bs journal. Still possible the journal version is viewed substantially, more just later (and journal views follow a similar curve).