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In a 2021 study conducted by the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, and Banaras Hindu University on the use of Sci-Hub in India, 13,144,241 out of 150,575,861 download requests in 2017 were found to have come from Indian IP addresses. Of the research papers downloaded in India, 1,050,62, or 18.46%, of these are already available in some form of open access.
The figures in this passage are transcribed incorrectly. The cited study reports 150,875,861 total log entries, not 150,575,861, and 1,050,620 open-access papers, not 1,050,62.
Full reasoning
The underlying 2021 study reports 150,875,861 total Sci-Hub log entries for 2017, with 13,144,241 of them originating from India. It also reports that 1,050,620 downloaded papers were already available in some form of open access, corresponding to 18.46%.
So this Wikipedia text contains at least two numeric transcription errors:
- 150,575,861 should be 150,875,861.
- 1,050,62 should be 1,050,620.
These are not matters of interpretation; they conflict with the figures given in the cited study itself.
2 sources
- What Do Indian Researchers Download from Sci-Hub? - DocsLib
It was found that out of 150,875,861 log entries, a total of 13,144,241 log entries corresponds to download requests from India, i.e., 8.7% of the download requests from Sci-Hub during the year 2017 originated from India.
- Journal of Scientometric Research, Vol 10, Issue 2, May-Aug 2021
Open Access Type Total | Papers 1,050,620 | Share (%) 18.46%. Table 3 shows that 18.46% of the total research papers downloaded from Sci-Hub are actually available in open access forms.