The RePEc Blog

Unfortunately, we struggle again with properly counting human traffic on our websites. Thus, take the following statistics with a scoop of salt: 237,988 file downloads and 2,359,486 abstract views in July 2026. On the positive side, we have another large batch of new RePEc archives: CamEd Business School, „Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy (Romania), Nürnberg Institut für Marktentscheidungen, Technoscience Academy, Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, Cuadernos de Economía de la Cultura, University of Boumerdes, BH Ekonomski Forum, Tashkent State University of Economics, International Journal of Neurology, Diginomics, Neurodivergences, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, NeuroData, Institute of Social Sciences (Belgrade), enformation. And we reached the following milestone:

6000 software components indexed

We seem to have successfully resolved our issues with abstract views counts, or the AI bots started to behave well. We now have good statistics for June 2026, and are working on checking whether we can similarly fix those for the past months as well. Thus, we counted in June 2026 287,743 file downloads and 2,033,037 abstract views. We welcomed a few new RePEc archives: Ramp Economics Lab, Aspen Economic Strategy Group, Journal of Economics, Governance and Sustainable Development, Philosophers Mint, ÓRBITA, European Open Science, Journal of Islamic Banking, Economics and Policy, Kings College London, AI Press Limited.

As for milestones we reached last month:
100’000’000 file downloads through IDEAS
2’500’000 book chapter downloads
1’500’000 book downloads

Last month, we welcomed a long list of new participating archives: Corporación Instituto para la Acción Pública, Luminis, Synoptic, Royal University of Bhutan, Oberlin College, Khurasan University, Hequation, Global Insights in Management and Economic Research, University of Auckland, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, HRL Journal Service. We counted 340,603 file downloads and 3,220,348 abstract views, the latter getting closer to believable levels. Finally, we reached the following milestones:

3,000,000 indexed articles with abstracts
2,400,000 indexed items with at least one citation from an item indexed in RePEc
2,500 institutions with alumni on the RePEc Genealogy
750 blogs with at least one post indexed on EconAcademics.org

Last month, the polls regarding how to handle self-citations and how to determine the fields of authors all concluded with the proposed changes being accepted by a wide margin. The changes are in the process of being implemented. We also continue to struggle counting properly abstract vierws under the strain of AI robots. We counted 347,011 file downloads and 9,952,364 abstract views. We added several new RePEc archives: Economics Communications, PT Literati Global Network, Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs, Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance, Stellenbosch University, Stanford University Press, Islamic Economics Journal.

Finally, we reached the following milestones:
100,000,000 references extracted
1,300,000 listed working papers

Last month, a new version of MyIDEAS was released with added features and foremost no broken features. EDIRC, the directory of economics institutions, turned 30. We welcomed a larger than usual group of archives: EUFIRE, Pro-Metrics Research, SARChI Industrial Development, Polish Academy of Sciences, Journal of Economics and Business Issues, Chapuly Press, Cedimes Institut, Focuscholar, Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, EdinBurg Peer Reviewed Journals and Books Publishers. We counted 340,207 file downloads and 3,946,861* abstract views. And we reached the following milestones:

300’000’000* abstract views for articles
2’500 departments with alumni in the RePEc Genealogy
2’400 registered RePEc archives
750 blogs with posts indexed on EconAcademics.org

There was quite a bit of movement with NEP reports: some editorships changed, one report was split in two (NEP-URE Urban and Real Estate Economics into NEP-HRE Housing and Real Estate and NEP-UEP Urban Economics and Policy) and a few new reports got added: NEP-MID Minorities Research (Ethnic, LGBTQ+, Disabilities), NEP-MIN Mining, and NEP-PBC Prices and Business cycles.

A few new publishers joined RePEc with their archives: IDEAGOV, Journal of Applied Technology and Innovation (JATI), Electronic Journal of Business and Management (EJBM), Yaroslavl State Technical University, Plataforma de Acción, Gestión e Investigación Social, South American Publishing. We counted 374,617 file dwnloads and 4,730,910 abstract views, with the caveat that the latter statistic is not reliable. No milestone to report this month.

This post is unusually late, in large part because we tried for a long time fixing the statistics for abstract views, whose quality has continued to deteriorate markedly due to AI robot traffic. It does not appear to be something that we can fix, but we will continue providing the data with a disclaimer. Full-text download statistics are believable, for the moment.

Thus, we counted 373,807 file downloads and 12,167,153 abstract views in January 2026. The latter is of course a (doubtful) record. We welcomed six new RePEc archives: Romanian Academic Society of Administrative Sciences, George Brown Press, Management and Business, Berger Science Press, Innovation and Sustainability, and ijcsacademia.com. And we reached the following milestones:

200,000 NEP reports issued
750 blogs with RePEc links indexed on EconAcademics.org

RePEc services continue to see increases in traffic that we find hard to believe, with 371,613 file downloads and 6,441,286 abstract views in December 2025. But more on that below. We welcomed a few new RePEc archives over that month: Lutsk National Technical University, International Emerging Scholars Society (IESS), EconSciences Library, University of Linz (II).

Now regarding last year as a whole. Two points marked the year: First, many of our sites are getting rewritten from scratch, an initiative that is going to be completed in a few months. Second, we have struggled with AI bots, initially when they overwhelmed our servers with requests as they were trying to collect our information, and then they started generating traffic that became difficult to distinguish from human traffic, which messes with our statistics. More details are provided in a recently updated, separate blog post.

Of course, RePEc continues to grow, thanks to 48 new RePEc archives and our existing publication contributors, over 2000 of them. Some highlights: 220 new working paper series, 70,000 new working papers, 260 new journals, 260,000 new journal articles, 56,000 new book chapters, 7,000 new books, 200 new software components, and 2,600 new registered authors, with all authors adding 108,000 works to their profiles. References were extracted from 175,000 new documents, 4,200 NEP reports were issued, and users made 19,000 amendments to the RePEc Genealogy. Finally, 29,000,000 abstracts were viewed on the reporting websites, who facilitated 4,200,000 document downloads.

For 2026, we expect to conclude the code rewrite and then start again with introducing new features. We will for sure have to deal with artificial intelligence, at least as much as last year, mostly as a nuisance. And we look forward to continue serving the economics profession with free services.

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

This past month was unusual because both IDEAS and EconPapers saw a doubling of their traffic compared to the previous month. We expose in a separate blog post why one could have doubts that this is really a doubling of web traffic by humans. In any case, after extensive vetting, we came to 426,544 file downloads and 3,543,137 abstract views over this month.

We also continue to add new particiapting archives at a good clip. Five new ones in October: European Commission, Directorate for Research and Innovation; SciFormat Publishing; Indonesian Treasury; Pioneer Academic Publishing; Brilliance Publishing. Finally, we reached the following milestones:

1,500,000 articles from which references have been extracted