Correlating Sci-Hub Data with World Bank Indicators and Academic Use

Correlating Sci-Hub Data with World Bank Indicators and Academic Use(thewinnower.com)

56 points by gedankenstuecke 10 years ago | 7 comments

smoyer 10 years ago |

Another article I read recently stated that it's simply much easier to use SciHub to search a vast trove of papers than it is using the individual tools/websites of those holding these research papers hostage behind their subscriptions.

aaron695 10 years ago | |

This would only be if you are not in University.

Universities search (While crap) will be far superior than anything Scihub could ever ever pull off.

And as mentioned Google Scholar is open to everyone and quite good anyway so not sure of the issue?

Sounds more like propaganda.

gedankenstuecke 10 years ago | | |

Author of the post here: I know no researcher in the life sciences who's using the university search systems. Instead people are mostly using Pubmed or Google Scholar.

But that doesn't solve the access: Finding the PDF you want on the publishers website can be a huge pain. So people just paste the DOI/Pubmed-ID etc. into Sci-Hub to get right to the PDF.

Hope that makes some sense :-)

IanCal 10 years ago | |

I thought sci-hub used google scholar as a search engine?

return0 10 years ago |

I still think that data represents simply which countries found out first about sci-hub. There was a science article showing that it's used nearly everywhere now, because it's actually easier to use

gedankenstuecke 10 years ago | |

I guess up to a point that's also the case, but it's harder to quantify when they found out about it. And sure, it's used basically world-wide by now, but there are still inter-country differences that aren't only explained by the time people learned about sci-hub :-)