[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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