Pirated Economics

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Abstract: We examine the data from illegal downloads of economics content from Sci-Hub over five-month period. The most pirated economics articles and the most pirated economics journals are identified. We analyze the contribution of this particular piracy engine toward open science (economics). We conclude that economics is benefitting from Sci-Hub: (a) as downloads are not pervasive, publishers are not losing much revenues; (b) as downloads are coming mostly from under-developed countries, the exposure to generated knowledge in the discipline has been extended.

Keywords: Sci-Hub; Piracy; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-02
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