The Map Of Scientific Collaboration
Olivier H. Beauchesne has created an interactive map which shows the international collaboration of scientists unopen to the world. The map plots the connections betwixt scientists as well as researchers inward unlike cities every bit seen inward scientific journals as well as papers ("for example, if a UCLA researcher published a newspaper amongst a colleague at the University of Tokyo, this would exercise an instance of collaboration betwixt Los Angeles as well as Tokyo").
The Map of Scientific Collaboration reveals how scientists collaborate across borders unopen to the world. As Beauchesne notes it besides reveals some interesting patterns inside private countries. For instance Paris seems to play a fundamental business office inward French science. No affair where scientists alive or run inward French Republic they all look to collaborate amongst some other scientist inward Paris. In comparing the Great Britain seems to convey a less centralized scientific network. This is perchance a upshot of the major Oxbridge universities existence located exterior of London.
Ironically, despite the global collaboration of scientists demonstrated inward the Map of Scientific Collaboration, most people unopen to the the world won't truly live on able to read the scientific papers from which the map was created. Unless they know most Sci-Hub.
Sci-Hub is an online repository of pirated scientific academic papers as well as articles. It allows researchers as well as students to access expensive pay-walled academic content. Content that is normally solely available from expensive academic mag publishers. This pay-walled organisation tin live on prohibitively expensive, peculiarly for struggling students as well as researchers from developing countries. It has been claimed that the popularity of Sci-Hub inward countries such every bit India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Pakistan as well as Islamic Republic of Iran proves that Sci-Hub is providing access to scientific query to those who wouldn't otherwise live on able to afford it.
In an article on the Science website, Who's Downloading Pirated Papers?, John Bohannon has created an interactive map showing where pirated scientific academic papers as well as articles convey been downloaded from Sci-Hub unopen to the world. In lodge to brand the map Bohannon contacted Alexandra Elbakyan, the Sci-Hub creator, to asking the geographic place of every user who has downloaded an academic newspaper from Sci-Hub. In lodge to protect the privacy of Sci-Hub users the information was aggregated to the nearest city.