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- Title
Scientists are working overtime: when do scientists download scientific papers?
- Authors
Geng, Yu; Cao, Renmeng; Han, Xiaopu; Tian, Wencan; Zhang, Guangyao; Wang, Xianwen
- Abstract
In this study, we track and analyze publication downloads from Sci-Hub to reconstruct scientists' activity patterns. We compare downloads from Sci-Hub and Springer, and find that, the work rhythms in working hours illustrated by downloads from the both platforms are very similar, however, when scientists are working overtime (at nights and weekends), Sci-Hub is more heavily used than copyrighted platforms to access scholarly publications. Scientists around the world are working overtime, but scientists in different countries have different working patterns. Scientists' preferences for different platforms are influenced by a variety of factors such as working times and workplace arrangements. There are variations by country in terms of whether scientists prefer to work overtime at night, at the weekend, or both at night and on the weekend.
- Subjects
OVERTIME; WORKING hours; NIGHT work
- Publication
Scientometrics, 2022, Vol 127, Issue 11, p6413
- ISSN
0138-9130
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11192-022-04524-1