The most popular web pages on RePEc services

November 29, 2013

We have occasionally been asked what the most popular web pages are on RePEc. This is somewhat difficult to determine, as there are many RePEc services, and they may log traffic in different ways. Only the counting of abstract views and downloads is treated uniformly, at LogEc. The list below should thus be taken with a grain of salt, and may be subject to measurement error and seasonal factors. In fact, one page is missing and should be somewhere in the top of the list, the EconPapers search page. Here we go:


  1. IDEAS search result
  2. IDEAS home
  3. Rankings
  4. RePEc Author Service home
  5. IDEAS journal list
  6. IDEAS paper series list
  7. IDEAS author list
  8. Top authors
  9. Top journals by simple impact factor
  10. Top economics departments
  11. Fantasy league
  12. EDIRC home
  13. MyIDEAS
  14. IDEAS advanced search page
  15. EDIRC alphabetical listing
  16. RePEc Author Service automatic suggestions
  17. IDEAS book series list
  18. EconPapers home
  19. MyIDEAS login
  20. Top US economics departments
  21. Top young economists
  22. Top institutions
  23. IDEAS JEL classification home
  24. CitEc home

A surprisingly large number of links to the rankings are in the list above. That should not indicate that economists are obsessed with rankings. IDEAS for example, has about two million web pages. The ranking pages actually represent only a small fraction of total traffic.

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How to get to the RePEc metadata

November 19, 2013

RePEc collects a lot of metadata about publications in economics and finance, their authors, citations and more. All this data is provided by volunteers with the understanding that it is freely available for non-commercial uses while there is no explicit licence for the data.

By the very nature of RePEc, the data is highly decentralized and may be somewhat difficult to get to, at least for a novice. To this end, we have now a  document that should help the potential user getting to it. It is not straightforward, and the data needs substantial massaging for the user to make good use of it. We hope this will be useful, though.

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RePEc in October 2013

November 4, 2013

This has been a busy month. We have introduced a new set of rankings which are based on publications from the last 10 years only. We now have a fantasy league that allows economists to pretend leading an academic economics department. We got a large crop of new participating archives, namely: Kyoto University, University of Leeds, National Tax Association, University of Miskolc, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Economic Laboratory for Transition Research (ELIT), Librello publishing house, Ethiopian Development Research Institute, Wageningen University, “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest, Tohoku University, DePauw University, Nepal Rastra Bank, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. We have counted 636,339 file downloads and 2,762,688 abstract views. Finally, these are the thresholds we passed.

6000 listed series and journals
1600 participating archives

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