We finished the year by adding a simple new tool that allows to select an economists according to several criteria, for example to find a seminar speaker. We counted 540,369 file downloads and 3,223,421 abstract views and welcomed the following new RePEc archives: Malopolska School of Economics, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, George Mason University.
Now regarding the year as a whole, 2020 was despite the circumstances a very satisfactory year. We counted the most abstract views ever over the span of a year, we surpassed 1 million indexed working papers, our citation analysis project made great strides, we added about 375,000 works to the index, about 3,500 authors registered, and 62 new RePEc archives started indexed their material. CollEc, the co-author network project, got a complete overhaul.
We are very encouraged by this increase in traffic. Over several year years, we have seen a decrease in traffic to the RePEc sites that report these numbers. Note that there has been also an increasing number of other sites that leverage RePEc data, but do not report such numbers. This made it difficult to evaluate how well we are doing overall. The new record *measured* traffic is a very positive signal.
Of course, this was also a special year because of the pandemic. This gave rise to a flood of papers about Covid-19, about 9000 to date in RePEc. The circumstances also called for the creation of an Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar that disseminated over 750 seminars.
Posted by Christian Zimmermann 
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