The issue we reported last month with unusual traffic on our web pages has gotten worse. As a consequence we will stop including abstract views as a metric for the aggregate ranking of authors and institutions, unless there is a dramatic return to normal. After our vetting, we counted 446,685 file downloads and 4,237,805 abstract views, a new record for the latter.
In addition, we welcomed to RePEc a few new participating archives: the Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship and the Linz Institute for Transformative Change. They contributed to a large increase in indexed content, about 85,000 new items. Finally, here are some milestones we reached during the last month:
600,000,000 cumulative abstract views
450,000,000 cumulative abstract views on IDEAS
3,500,000 journal articles available for download
300,000 indexed book chapters
70,000 indexed books
Posted by Christian Zimmermann 
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