COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Alexandra Elbakyan

1988 - Today

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Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, Armenian: Ալեքսանդրա Էլբակյան, born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature. Elbakyan has been described as "Science's Pirate Queen". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandra Elbakyan has received more than 2,128,033 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Alexandra Elbakyan is the 198th most popular computer scientist (down from 168th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 75th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 198 out of 245. Before her are Erich Gamma, Alan Cox, Chieko Asakawa, Ian Murdock, Sophie Wilson, and Gilles Brassard. After her are Daphne Koller, Martin Odersky, Theo de Raadt, Peter Norvig, Rodney Brooks, and Paul Buchheit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 213. Before her are Colton Haynes, Behati Prinsloo, Atsuto Uchida, Diego Buonanotte, Greg Oden, and Boban Marjanović. After her are Tyler Joseph, Agustín Marchesín, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Elsa Hosk, Steven Defour, and Ibrahima Traoré.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 96 out of 193. Before her are Timur Kulibayev (1966), Andrey Kivilev (1973), Murat Nasyrov (1969), Oleg Maskayev (1969), Zinaida Amosova (1950), and Olga Rypakova (1984). After her are Elena Likhovtseva (1975), Shamil Serikov (1956), Maxim Iglinsky (1981), Alexander Merkel (1992), Svetlana Kapanina (1968), and Wladimir Resnitschenko (1965).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Kazakhstan

Among computer scientists born in Kazakhstan, Alexandra Elbakyan ranks 1. 

Kazakhstani born Computer Scientists

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