January 2008 - RePEc-announce

Journal of Statistical Software [archive no. 845]
by Kit Baum 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Template-type: ReDIF-Archive 1.0 Handle: RePEc:jss Name: Journal of Statistical Software Maintainer-Name: Christopher F Baum Maintainer-Email: baum(a)bc.edu Description: Articles from the Journal of Statistical Software URL: ftp://ftpeagle.bc.edu/pub/user/baum/RePEc/jss Homepage: http://www.jstatsoft.org Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) http://repec.org

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RePEc in December 2007, and Year 2007
by Christian Zimmermann 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

The major event this month is that we passed to three important thresholds: 15,000 authors, 80% of the material now online, and 1/8 billion abstract views. For some hints at what 15,000 authors represent in the Economics profession, see elsewhere on the blog. Also, we have now released rankings for the most cited recent papers and articles. As year 2007 is now over, we can reflect on what RePEc has achieved over that year. 158 archives were added, and the total of currently 844 archives have added 108,000 bibliographic items to RePEc, a 24% growth, with 240 new working paper series and 130 new journals. 105,000 new items are online, a 31% growth. 3,500 authors registered, almost ten a day, a 30% growth. Citation analysis coverage increased by 39%. In 2007, we added also a few new features: - Compilations by institutions of all publications from affiliated and registered authors (find institutions on EDIRC) - Customized publication compilations: by defining a list of authors or by creating a reading list - Registered authors can now manage citations at the RePEc Author Service: delete erroneous ones and approve citations that were deemed dubious matches. - Rankings have been improved with more criteria, with rankings within fields and with citation rankings for recent items only. - The RePEc blog was inaugurated. Finally, RePEc celebrated its 10th year in its current form. I think this was an impressive year, and I am looking forward to an even better year 2008! In terms of traffic, December is expectedly calmer, but we still managed record numbers for the month: 1,822,061 abstract views and 504,315 downloads. This leads us to the thresholds we have passed this month: 125,000,000 cumulative abstract views 275,000 online articles 130,000 items with references 15,000 registered authors 1,900 working paper series 80% of all items available online Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann(a)uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html

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New archives, December 2007
by Kit Baum 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

RePEc added 7 new archives in December: EEM Euro-area Economy Modelling Centre (EEMC) CGT Department of Economics, Colgate University CAS Centre for Advanced Studies, Moscow, Russia EDB Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI), Brunel University NPF NIPFP, India BOT Department of Statistics, University of Bologna CIL CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy) - Lund University, Sweden bringing the total number of archives to 844. Of these, 158 were established in 2007. We also have 146 outstanding requests from maintainers who have not yet set up their archive. Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) http://repec.org

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