The RePEc Blog

We concluded the year by reaching a major milestone, 70,000 registered authors, which is triple the membership of the largest professional organization in Economics. We also launched a new service for Bluesky users, as now all NEP reports can be followed there now. Other options are email, RSS, and Mastodon. Authors already had the option to add their Bluesky handle to their profile.

In regular news, we welcomed a couple of new archives: Drexel University and Journal of Sustainable Development Issues. We counted during the month 327,978 file downloads and 1,426,598 abstract views. And we reached the following milestones:
12,000,000 cumulative abstract views for books
70,000 registered authors

Now regarding the year as a whole. We counted 4,721,574 file downloads and 18,772,300 abstract views. Note that this is only a partial picture, as not all RePEc services provide auditable traffic data. 30 new RePEc archives joined. Along with over 2100 extant archives, they added 100 working papers series, 45,000 working papers, 120 journals, 200,000 articles, 130 new software components, 2,500 new books and 20,000 new book chapters (numbers rounded). 3,500 new authors registered, and their profiles include 125,000 more works than 12 months ago.

2025 is expected to be a busy year for RePEc. We will continue to provide services to the Economics professions thanks to our volunteers. Beyond this we hope to launch a new initiative, stay tuned by following this blog.

Given the growing popularity of Bluesky among economists, several features have been added on RePEc sites. The RePEc Author Service now allows authors to add their Bluesky handle to their social media contacts. IDEAS uses that information to create listings of authors on Bluesky by field and country. IDEAS also makes it possible to post any of its pages to Bluesky on the click of a button. This matches what was available for other social media.
In other news, RePEc welcomed one new publication data provider, the Harvard Growth Lab. We counted 417,593 file downloads and 1,659,897 abstract views on EconPapers, IDEAS and NEP. And we reached the following milestone:
250,000 book chapters indexed

Little to report from RePEc this month. One new RePEc archive, Agregat: Journal of Economics and Business. We counted 449,149 file downloads and 1,900,334 abstract views. And we reached the following milestones:

10,000 contributors to the RePEc Genealogy

10 RePEc archives with more than 100,000 indexed items

Over last month, two new RePEc archives joined: International Journal of Economic Policy and University of Malaga (II). We counted 371,431 file downloads and 1,515,605 abstract views. And in terms of milestones, we reached the following:

4,800,000 research items listed on RePEc
1,000 registered authors listed as deceased.

Web traffic on RePEc sites is usually the lowest in August. This year was different. While human traffic was within the expected numbers, 297,597 file downloads and 1,192,388 abstract views, robotic traffic was three times higher than usual, which led to some strains. We also added four new RePEc archives: American Journal of Economics, Swiss Business School, Instituto Brasileiro de Ensino, Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa (IDP), Sustainable Regional Development Scientific Journal.

No remarkable milestones were reached in the past month.

Over the last month, we welcomed four new RePEc archives: Explore Scholar Publishing, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Visayas State University Finance, Accounting and Business Analysis. We counted 309,888 file downloads and 1,215,977 abstract views on EconPapers, IDEAS, and NEP. And we reached the following milestone:

1,200,000 paper announcements disseminated through NEP

The Summer has started, which means that all activity gets into a seasonal slumber. Still, the reporting sites recorded 361,135 file downloads and 1,412,724 abstract views, we added an archive from the University of National and World Economy in Bulgaria, and we reached the following milestones:

500,000 JEL coded articles
2,000 departments listed in the RePEc Genealogy

Which locations use the RePEc sites the most? To answer this question, we look at the Google Analytics statistics for some of the most popular RePEc sites (IDEAS, EDIRC, RePEc Author Service, plus a few small sites).

Google Analytics is a very widely used tools that allows basic traffic analysis for web sites. One dimension that is available to webmaster is counts for specific locations, defined as those for which country codes exist. That means that some locations that are part of another country are singled out, such as Puerto Rico (part of the US) and Guadeloupe (France). Below we rank those locations based on statistics for sessions from June 2011 to June 2023 and “engaged sessions” (more that just loading a page and moving on elsewhere) since then.

1. United States
   
2. India
   
3. United Kingdom
   
4. China
   
5. Germany
   
6. Philippines
   
7. France
   
8. Italy
   
9. Canada
   
10. Australia
    
11. Malaysia
    
12. Spain
    
13. Nigeria
    
14. Indonesia
    
15. Pakistan
    
16. Netherlands
    
17. Japan
    
18. Türkiye
    
19. Colombia
    
20. Brazil
    
21. South Africa
    
22. Mexico
    
23. Kenya
    
24. Switzerland
    
25. South Korea
    
26. Russia
    
27. Belgium
    
28. Iran
    
29. Peru
    
30. Hong Kong
    
31. Singapore
    
32. Sweden
    
33. Taiwan
    
34. Poland
    
35. Greece
    
36. Vietnam
    
37. Romania
    
38. Portugal
    
39. Bangladesh
    
40. Austria
    
41. Thailand
    
42. Chile
    
43. Ethiopia
    
44. Argentina
    
45. Ireland
    
46. Denmark
    
47. Ghana
    
48. Czechia
    
49. Norway
    
50. Egypt
    
51. Finland
    
52. Tunisia
    
53. New Zealand
    
54. Tanzania
    
55. Ecuador
    
56. Sri Lanka
    
57. Ukraine
    
58. United Arab Emirates
    
59. Hungary
    
60. Morocco
    
61. Israel
    
62. Saudi Arabia
    
63. Zimbabwe
    
64. Nepal
    
65. Uganda
    
66. Algeria
    
67. Slovakia
    
68. Croatia
    
69. Lithuania
    
70. Bulgaria
    
71. Zambia
    
72. Cameroon
    
73. Venezuela
    
74. Mauritius
    
75. Serbia
    
76. Luxembourg
    
77. Lebanon
    
78. Bolivia
    
79. Slovenia
    
80. Cyprus
    
81. Kazakhstan
    
82. Jamaica
    
83. Jordan
    
84. Iraq
    
85. Trinidad & Tobago
    
86. Uruguay
    
87. Malawi
    
88. Côte d’Ivoire
    
89. Botswana
    
90. Dominican Republic
    
91. Rwanda
    
92. Estonia
    
93. Albania
    
94. Costa Rica
    
95. Senegal
    
96. Cambodia
    
97. Latvia
    
98. Azerbaijan
    
99. Uzbekistan
    
100. Oman
     
101. Guatemala
     
102. Sudan
     
103. Qatar
     
104. North Macedonia
     
105. Georgia
     
106. Namibia
     
107. Myanmar (Burma)
     
108. Malta
     
109. Kuwait
     
110. Bosnia & Herzegovina
     
111. Mongolia
     
112. Armenia
     
113. Puerto Rico
     
114. Belarus
     
115. Moldova
     
116. Macao
     
117. Fiji
     
118. Somalia
     
119. Bahrain
     
120. Panama
     
121. Palestine
     
122. Kosovo
     
123. Barbados
     
124. El Salvador
     
125. Benin
     
126. Iceland
     
127. Brunei
     
128. Honduras
     
129. Burkina Faso
     
130. Congo – Kinshasa
     
131. Lesotho
     
132. Paraguay
     
133. Mozambique
     
134. Sierra Leone
     
135. Nicaragua
     
136. Afghanistan
     
137. Syria
     
138. Guyana
     
139. Cuba
     
140. Bhutan
     
141. Maldives
     
142. Kyrgyzstan
     
143. Togo
     
144. Eswatini
     
145. Madagascar
     
146. Papua New Guinea
     
147. Laos
     
148. Libya
     
149. Gabon
     
150. Liberia
     
151. Haiti
     
152. Yemen
     
153. Angola
     
154. Montenegro
     
155. South Sudan
     
156. Bahamas
     
157. Gambia
     
158. Mali
     
159. Réunion
     
160. Belize
     
161. Suriname
     
162. Burundi
     
163. Seychelles
     
164. Congo – Brazzaville
     
165. St. Lucia
     
166. Niger
     
167. St. Vincent & Grenadines
     
168. Curaçao
     
169. Tajikistan
     
170. Liechtenstein
     
171. Dominica
     
172. Grenada
     
173. Solomon Islands
     
174. Antigua & Barbuda
     
175. Guinea
     
176. Timor-Leste
     
177. Guam
     
178. St. Kitts & Nevis
     
179. Cape Verde
     
180. Guadeloupe
     
181. Martinique
     
182. Djibouti
     
183. Mauritania
     
184. Jersey
     
185. Cayman Islands
     
186. Aruba
     
187. Turkmenistan
     
188. Bermuda
     
189. Chad
     
190. Vanuatu
     
191. Monaco
     
192. U.S. Virgin Islands
     
193. French Polynesia
     
194. Samoa
     
195. Guernsey
     
196. New Caledonia
     
197. Tonga
     
198. Andorra
     
199. British Virgin Islands
     
200. American Samoa
     
201. French Guiana
     
202. Anguilla
     
203. Gibraltar
     
204. Faroe Islands
     
205. Eritrea
     
206. Turks & Caicos Islands
     
207. Central African Republic
     
208. Isle of Man
     
209. Western Sahara
     
210. Equatorial Guinea
     
211. Sint Maarten
     
212. Guinea-Bissau
     
213. Mayotte
     
214. São Tomé & Príncipe
     
215. Comoros
     
216. Kiribati
     
217. Micronesia
     
218. Northern Mariana Islands
     
219. San Marino
     
220. Greenland
     
221. Marshall Islands
     
222. Caribbean Netherlands
     
223. Cook Islands
     
224. Montserrat
     
225. Palau
     
226. Åland Islands
     
227. St. Martin
     
228. Tuvalu
     
229. Svalbard & Jan Mayen
     
230. Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
     
231. St. Helena
     
232. Nauru
     
233. North Korea
     
234. St. Barthélemy
     
235. St. Pierre & Miquelon
     
236. Norfolk Island
     
237. British Indian Ocean Territory
     
238. Niue
     
239. Vatican City
     
240. Wallis & Futuna
     
241. Antarctica
     
242. Christmas Island
     
243. Tokelau
     
244. South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
     
245. U.S. Outlying Islands
     

During the last month, we welcomed two new RePEc archives: University of Macau and SPAST Foundation. We counted 477,243 file downloads and 1,862,331 abstract views. As for milestones, we have reached the following ones:

10,000,000 cumulative abstract views for book chapters
2,000,000 documents with references extracted

Last month, we counted 468,662 file downloads and 1,739,606 abstract views from the few reporting services that use RePEc data. We welcomed a few new RePEc archives: BI Norwegian Business School (II), Technology Center Group Ltd, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (II). No other new this month, including milestones.