Hello all! Yet another stellar month for RePEc. Traffic went up once again to new records: 380,488 file downloads and 2,222,213 abstract views. Details are at http://logec.hhs.se/. 8 new archives opened and contribute now to RePEc, including the prestigious CV Starr Center at New York University. Among some thresholds passed over the last month, RePEc now has over: 20000 items with citations 24000 items with extracted references 3600 registered authors 55% of all items are available online Expect much more by the end of the year! -- 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@uconn.edu
Christian said:
Yet another stellar month for RePEc. Traffic went up once again to new records: 380,488 file downloads and 2,222,213 abstract views. Details are at http://logec.hhs.se/.
Excellent numbers and good to see the growth, but this many abstract views seems like a lot. If there are 40,000 active econoists (~25,000 AEA members, but certainly doesn't cover all economists) this comes to 55 views per economist, which still seems high for a month. I see something like 3.5M page views in RFE per year, which seems high too. Any idea what % is "real" and what is spurious? - Bill -- *------------------------------------------------------* | Bill Goffe goffe@oswego.edu | | Department of Economics voice: (315) 312-3444 | | SUNY Oswego fax: (315) 312-5444 | | 416 Mahar Hall <wuecon.wustl.edu/~goffe> | | Oswego, NY 13126 | *--------*------------------------------------------------------*-----------* | "While Microsoft doesn't provide specific numbers, its Hotmail service | | is proclaimed to be the `world's largest provider of free Web-based | | E-mail.' It's interesting, then, that despite its own commercial | | offerings, Hotmail juggles its millions of visitors from an Apache Web | | server-running atop the FreeBSD open-source operating system, no less." | | -- "Open Source Moves To The Mainstream," Aaron Weiss, April 10, 2000 | | "Information Week Online" <www.informationweek.com/781/open.htm> | *---------------------------------------------------------------------------*
Abstract views are weeded from any robot and spider activity. Also we limit the count to one IP address per item, thus curtailing "reload" counts. So the numbers are not inflated from this. My analysis of logs files on IDEAS tells me that it is not just research economists that use our web sites, but also practicing economists in the industry and government, students and simply the general public. And people do extensive bibliographic searches using RePEc, spending quite a bit of time on our sites, and returning often. And let us not forget that there are many more Economists in the world then what the AEA can cover. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Bill Goffe wrote:
Christian said:
Yet another stellar month for RePEc. Traffic went up once again to new records: 380,488 file downloads and 2,222,213 abstract views. Details are at http://logec.hhs.se/.
Excellent numbers and good to see the growth, but this many abstract views seems like a lot. If there are 40,000 active econoists (~25,000 AEA members, but certainly doesn't cover all economists) this comes to 55 views per economist, which still seems high for a month. I see something like 3.5M page views in RFE per year, which seems high too. Any idea what % is "real" and what is spurious?
- Bill
-- 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@uconn.edu
Christian said:
Abstract views are weeded from any robot and spider activity. Also we limit the count to one IP address per item, thus curtailing "reload" counts. So the numbers are not inflated from this.
Ah -- I forgot this.
My analysis of logs files on IDEAS tells me that it is not just research economists that use our web sites, but also practicing economists in the industry and government, students and simply the general public. And people do extensive bibliographic searches using RePEc, spending quite a bit of time on our sites, and returning often. And let us not forget that there are many more Economists in the world then what the AEA can cover.
Interesting -- Sune said much the same. I forgot about non-economists. The AEA was just a way of estimating the # of economists. I remembered the approximate membership, and John Siegfried has a paper on the % of different departments and their AEA membership (30-70%?), so could estimate economists in the U.S. From there, maybe approximate the number of economists by the U.S. share of world GDP (1/3). This implies ~75K economists worldwide (not horribly off my earlier #). Finally, most academic economists do little publishing (I've got an article in my office on it -- glad to share if anybody wants it). - Bill -- *------------------------------------------------------* | Bill Goffe goffe@oswego.edu | | Department of Economics voice: (315) 312-3444 | | SUNY Oswego fax: (315) 312-5444 | | 416 Mahar Hall <wuecon.wustl.edu/~goffe> | | Oswego, NY 13126 | *--------*------------------------------------------------------*-----------* | "Only one astronaut has ever taken the terrifying basket ride; a safety | | official who took part in that same trial run screamed all the way down." | | -- A description of riding the emergency slide from the shuttle on its | | launch pad -- it starts 200 feet off the ground and is 1,200 feet | | long. CNN, 4/5/99 | *---------------------------------------------------------------------------*
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