https://medium.com/@chiranthan.krishnappa/analysing-the-ethics-of-pirating-research-papers-sci-hub-c8c730289709
Sci-Hub wants to make all scientific knowledge available to everyone, without any restrictions [11]. Users of Sci-Hub can download research articles for free by referencing them rather than paying

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230606/p2a/00m/0na/016000c
A screenshot of the Sci-Hub website. TOKYO -- Illicit free downloads of academic papers are skyrocketing in Japan, reaching some 7.2 million in 2022, a Mainichi Shimbun investigation has found.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30388-7
Till, B. M., Rudolfson, N., Saluja, S., Gnanaraj, J., Samad, L., Ljungman, D., & Shrime, M. (2019). Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28

https://www.prindleinstitute.org/2022/11/z-library-and-digital-piracy/
Academic pirating sites such as sci-hub are widely used in countries where universities can't afford expensive journals. For those that believe knowledge should be widely available, this is a clear benefit of piracy and the raison d'être of sites such as a sci-hub, which boldly declares "access to information is a human right." The

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(18)30388-7.pdf
Miñan-Tapia A, et al. Use, knowledge, and perception of the scientific contribution of Sci-Hub in medical students: study in six countries in Latin America. PLoS One 2017; 12: e0185673. 5 Himmelstein DS, Romero AR, McLaughlin SR. Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature. eLife 2018; 7: e32822. 6 Bohannon J. Who's

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/02/19/the-unstoppable-rise-of-sci-hub-how-does-a-new-generation-of-researchers-perceive-sci-hub/
How do early career researchers (ECRs) use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site, finding a strong preference for Sci-Hub amongst French ECRs.He raises the question, will Sci-Hub prove the ultimate disruptor and bring down the existing status quo in scholarly communications?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30554757/
Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads. Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads. Lancet Glob Health. 2019 Jan;7 (1):e30-e31. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X (18)30388-7.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Who-is-pirating-medical-literature-A-bibliometric-Till-Rudolfson/220d7f1f30f61b80c4997f7a5f0e2c43f9604d40
A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads. @article{Till2019WhoIP, title={Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads.}, author={Brian M. Till and Niclas Rudolfson and S Saluja and Jesudian Gnanaraj and Lubna Samad and David Ljungman and Mark G. Shrime}, journal={The Lancet.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30388-7/fulltext
Access to the medical literature is essential for both the practice of evidence-based medicine and meaningful contribution to medical sciences. Nonetheless, only 12% of newly published papers are freely accessible online,1 and, as of 2014, only 3 million of the 26·3 million articles indexed on PubMed were available on the site's repository of free materials, PubMed Central.2 Access to paywall

https://europepmc.org/article/MED/30554757
Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads. Till BM 1 , Rudolfson N 2 , Saluja S 3 , Gnanaraj J 4 , Samad L 5 , Ljungman D 6 , Shrime M 7 Author information. Affiliations. 1. Harvard Medical School Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Thomas Jefferson University

https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=4f07f4bf-ebb2-4d55-a59b-4f7cbe5331f8
A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads Author(s): Brian M Till , Niclas Rudolfson , Saurabh Saluja , Jesudian Gnanaraj , Lubna Samad , David Ljungman , Mark Shrime

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330062445_Who_is_pirating_medical_literature_A_bibliometric_review_of_28_million_Sci-Hub_downloads
Figure: Sci-Hub downloads in health sciences per scientific publication from the same country Downloads per publication 0-2 2-4 4-10 10-30 30-100 100-600 NA