Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads.

Authors

Brian M. Till, Harvard Medical School; Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Niclas Rudolfson, Harvard Medical School; Lund University
Saurabh Saluja, Harvard Medical School; New York Presbyterian Hospital
Jesudian Gnanaraj, SEESHA Hospital
Lubna Samad, Indus Health Research Center
David Ljungman, Harvard Medical School; University of Gothenburg
Mark Shrime, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Comments

This article has been peer reviewed. It is the author’s final published version in The Lancet Global Health, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages e30-e31.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30388-7. Copyright © Till et al.

Abstract

We aimed to define the proportion of downloads on Sci-Hub that are medical in nature and to consider these data at the national level, evaluating the relation between density of medical literature downloads and scientific output, national income classifications, and indicators of internet penetrance.

Recommended Citation

Till, Brian M.; Rudolfson, Niclas; Saluja, Saurabh; Gnanaraj, Jesudian; Samad, Lubna; Ljungman, David; and Shrime, Mark, "Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads." (2019). Department of Surgery Faculty Papers. Paper 165.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/surgeryfp/165

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

PubMed ID

30554757

Language

English