SciHub: The new and ultimate disruptor? View from the front

D Nicholas, C Boukacem‐Zeghmouri, J Xu… - Learned …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… to: (1) determine what Sci-Hub was offering and the means by which it collects content and
(2) obtain additional quantitative data on Sci-Hub interest implied by search data from Google …

Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

DS Himmelstein, AR Romero, JG Levernier, TA Munro… - ELife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
… Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of the … Sci-Hub
preferentially covers popular, paywalled content. For toll access articles, we find that Sci-Hub

[HTML][HTML] Looking into Pandora's Box: The content of Sci-Hub and its usage

B Greshake - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sci-Hub. By utilizing the recently released corpus of Sci-Hub and comparing it to the data of
… circumnavigated using Guerilla Open Access approaches like Sci-Hub. On a journal level, …

The Sci-Hub effect on papers' citations

JC Correa, H Laverde-Rojas, J Tejada… - Scientometrics, 2022 - Springer
… Our goal in this paper is to study the effect of Sci-Hub on citing published articles. Our central
hypothesis is that the access of articles through Sci-Hub is associated with a higher number …

Sci-Hub, a challenge for academic and research libraries

L González-Solar… - El profesional de la …, 2019 - eprints.rclis.org
… impact of Sci-Hub among researchers, who have embraced this initiative. Sci-Hub has
revealed … This study addresses the Sci-Hub phenomenon and its implications for academic and …

The Sci-hub Effect: Sci-hub downloads lead to more article citations

JC Correa, H Laverde-Rojas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… , the role of Sci-hub as a relevant predictor of citations remains unknown. … of Sci-hub on
citing published articles. Our central hypothesis is that the access of articles through Sci-hub is …

On the culture of open access: the Sci-hub paradox

A Maddi, D Sapinho - Scientometrics, 2023 - Springer
… However, we are not aware of any study on the impact of Sci-hubSci-hub may have a
role in researchers’ citation practices. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze how Sci-hub

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of Sci-Hub downloads of computer science papers

D Andročec - Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Informatica, 2017 - sciendo.com
… article on Sci-Hub activity over the period of six months and publicly released the Sci-Hub’s …
The mentioned Sci-Hub log data was used in this paper to analyse downloads of computer …

Sci-Hub: A solution to the problem of Paywalls, or merely a diagnosis of a broken system?

JS Faust - Annals of emergency medicine, 2016 - annemergmed.com
… of Sci-Hub, the alternative system embodied by Sci-Hub is not … target of illegal downloads
on Sci-Hub. Sensing a growing … If nothing else, then, Sci-Hub and the recent flurry of press …

My love-hate of Sci-Hub

M McNutt - Science, 2016 - science.org
… , I have a love-hate relationship with Sci-Hub, the website operated out of Russia that …
However, I also recognize that much traffic to Sci-Hub is from researchers who already have …