[HN Gopher] The "Sci-Hub effect" can almost double the citations...
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The "Sci-Hub effect" can almost double the citations of research
articles
Author : NmAmDa
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-08-09 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| cblconfederate wrote:
| You know why they get cited? Because people can actually read
| them. It's not uncommon to skip an article in a review because
| Sciencedirect is down / you re working from home / the article is
| in an obscure old journal etc. Time is always limited, and scihub
| speeds up that process by an infinite amount
| drannex wrote:
| Who would have thought that granting more people to have access
| to research would lend itself to creating even more research?
| Almost as if closed platforms and gatekeepers of information
| limit the amount of people who can be part of the community
| absent an elite few.
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