What's the marginal impact of making papers/books freely available?
and colleagues found that Sci-hub download numbers predict downstream citation counts. Hard to establish causation (is this just a popularity measure?)—but very interesting!
andymatuschak.org/files/papers/C
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(I appreciate the extreme irony of how this paper is presented on the web—oh, Springer…)
Yes, I believe that's the version I ended up with—thank you!
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