The RePEc Blog

RePEc reached a major milestone last month: 5 millions indexed works are available online. In part, this this was helped by 17 new participating archives: Journal of Education and Development Lab, Moroccan Association of Reliability, Asset, Facility & Maintenance Management, Dergipark, In Manifest Network, Economists in Vocational Education Research, Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, International Journal of Accounting, Finance, Auditing, Management and Economics, International Journal of Scientific Research in Chemistry, PolicyWonk, Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Tourism, International Journal of Scientific Research in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Financial Advisor (Finansijski savetnik), Research Synergy Foundation, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie mathématique, International Journal of Scientific Research in Civil Engineering, Gyanshauryam, Research Papers in Economics and Finance. We counted 355,302 file downloads and 2,223,081 abstract views, with higher confidence in latter number than for previous months.

Finally, these are the milestones we reached:
5,000,000 online works indexed
333,333 book chapters indexed

Tribute from Thomas Krichel
I learned today of the passing of Jan Weiland, on 27 September 2026, at the age of 56. Jan was the manager of EconStor at the Zentralbibiliothek Wirtschaftswissenschaften (ZBW) in Kiel, Germany. My first interaction with him dates to June 2006. This was at the time the late Bob Parks gave up on EconWPA. We looked for a successor. Munich University library were the first to accept and MPRA was created. We had to tell ZBW that this opportunity was gone. ZBW did not take it personnally. They have continued to contribute to RePEc. They were the first to fund a server for us. They still do. Jan acted as point of contact for that. Anytime the server had issues, he took my excessive technical details with great cheer. Jan was leading the growth of ZBW repository EconStor. EconStor exports its data to RePEc. It absorbed a few RePEc archives located in Germany. Over the years, we talked a few times. He was easy to arrange a call with. He was very welcoming, cheerful and a rather humble. It will not be easy for ZBW to replace him with a kinder person.

Tribute from Christian Zimmermann
The open access community in Economics lost an important advocate and doer in Jan Weiland. He was instrumental in the creation and maintenance of EconStor, which has become the gateway to the dissemination of research through RePEc for many institutions and individuals, in Germany and elsewhere. EconStor is now among the major RePEc archives, and the second largest completely open access one.
Jan was totally committed to the cause of open access. I ran into him a few times, in Kiel, Berlin and even St. Louis, where we chatted about the big picture of open access and the nitty gritty details of doing it right. It will be difficult to find such a devoted advocate.

Last month, we continued having a steady stream of new RePEc archives, facilitated by the new OJS plug-in, in fact a record haul (22): Shodhshauryam, International Journal of Scientific Research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, International Journal of Scientific Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, International Society of Boredom Studies, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional, Helmos Academic Press, Vertex International Research and Consultancy, Methodist University, Ibn Tofail University, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, NN Publication, NorthVision Publishing, International Development Economics Association, BAUDER Press, Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO), Arab Media Renewal Journal, International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, Institute for Regenerative Systems Architecture, i6eal.

In other news, we counted 262,605 file downloads and 3,019,341 abstract views, the latter to be taken with a grain of salt, AI bots having given us quite a bit of trouble last month. However, we did not reach any milestone of significance in August.

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