>so Sci-Hub is paying the same as anyone else. You seem to be missing the point: Who is going to review for sci hub? Reviewers review for the journal the deci

>so Sci-Hub is paying the same as anyone else. You seem to be missing the point: Who is going to review for sci hub? Reviewers review for the journal the decide to - and that's based on the quality of a journal. I will review for a good journal. I won't for a bad one. Who would review for sci hub? I wouldn't, and I doubt many if any top researchers would either. Sci hub will accept the crappiest of stuff, so I (and pretty much anyone else doing solid reviews) would not bother. >Sci-Hub doesn't host, it proxies Did you check that or write it because you want to believe that? Sci hub pulls a copy to sci hub using stolen credentials when you ask for a copy. For example, here [1] is one of my papers that sci hub has copied and serves from their site. (not sure how long they cache copies, but it's not hard to see using chrome and viewing requests to tell where files come from). The paper even has a front page and watermarks added in 2016 from where it was downloaded from. So no, sci-hub didn't just proxy to the journal. [1] https://zero.sci-hub.do/5265/2478517301ba71ba89a837647f1a133a/lomont2002.pdf https://zero.sci-hub.do/5265/2478517301ba71ba89a837647f1a133...