Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study published in ...
As a researcher, I think it’s tough to overstate how much the current publishing system hinders scientific progress.
Not only does it make published results less accessible to other researchers, while siphoning tons of money away from research, it also financially incentivizes a quantity-over-quality approach to publication.
Sci-hub is the best thing that has happened to science in ages, imo.
Couldn’t agree more!
As a researcher, I think it’s tough to overstate how much the current publishing system hinders scientific progress.
Not only does it make published results less accessible to other researchers, while siphoning tons of money away from research, it also financially incentivizes a quantity-over-quality approach to publication.
Sci-hub is the best thing that has happened to science in ages, imo.