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I think Sci-Hub is the opposite since 1 DOI = 1 PDF in its canonical form (straight from the publisher) so neither duplication nor low-quality is the case.



It does depend on when the work was published. Pre-digital works scanned in without OCR can be larger in size. That's typically works from the 1980s and before.

Given the explosion of scientific publishing, that's likely a small fraction of the archive by work though it may be significant in terms of storage.




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