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

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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.

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

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.

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 :-)

You are just one person.. I don't have to do anything to access articles other than instantly visit the article page and download the PDF in one or two clicks.

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

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 :-)

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