Alexandra Elbakyan is the founder of Sci-Hub, where you can download any scientific article you want. Journals are furious, but she doesn’t care.

When Science Magazine worked with Elbakyan to map Sci-Hub’s user statistics, it discovered that a quarter of Sci-Hub downloads were from the 34 richest countries on Earth.

For the record, there’s little evidence that Sci-Hub is actually a threat to the scientific record. The papers on the site are the same papers you can download through official channels.

These papers are free for anyone to view and download. ... Science reports that only 4.3 percent of Sci-Hub’s monthly download requests are for articles not already in the database.

Sci-Hub’s domain name, ... If you go to a university Library they have journals that you can access for free. I bring a thumb drive and download them. Report comment. Reply.

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Sci-Hub is a pirated paper site that allows you to browse academic papers for free, ... The top 20 countries with the highest number of paper downloads on Sci-Hub in February 2022 are as follows.

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Download figures for Sci-Hub, the popular but controversial website that hosts pirated copies of scientific papers, reveal where people are using the site most. The statistics show that users ...