Olivier H. Beauchesne has created an interactive map which shows the international collaboration of scientists only about the world. The map plots the connections betwixt scientists together with researchers inwards dissimilar cities equally seen inwards scientific journals together with papers ("for example, if a UCLA researcher published a newspaper alongside a colleague at the University of Tokyo, this would practise an instance of collaboration betwixt Los Angeles together with Tokyo").
The Map of Scientific Collaboration reveals how scientists collaborate across borders only about the world. As Beauchesne notes it besides reveals some interesting patterns inside private countries. For instance Paris seems to play a fundamental business office inwards French science. No affair where scientists alive or move inwards French Republic they all appear to collaborate alongside some other scientist inwards Paris. In comparing the UK seems to bring a less centralized scientific network. This is maybe a trial of the major Oxbridge universities existence located exterior of London.
Ironically, despite the global collaboration of scientists demonstrated inwards the Map of Scientific Collaboration, most people only about the basis won't truly last able to read the scientific papers from which the map was created. Unless they know close Sci-Hub.
Sci-Hub is an online repository of pirated scientific academic papers together with articles. It allows researchers together with students to access expensive pay-walled academic content. Content that is unremarkably exclusively available from expensive academic mag publishers. This pay-walled arrangement tin last prohibitively expensive, peculiarly for struggling students together with researchers from developing countries. It has been claimed that the popularity of Sci-Hub inwards countries such equally India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Pakistan together with Islamic Republic of Iran proves that Sci-Hub is providing access to scientific inquiry to those who wouldn't otherwise last 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 together with articles bring been downloaded from Sci-Hub only about 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.
