View source for Research Papers in Economics

{{short description|Bibliographic database for economics}}
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'''Research Papers in Economics''' ('''RePEc''') is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in many countries to enhance the dissemination of research in [[economics]]. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of [[Working paper|working papers]], [[preprint]]s, [[Academic journal|journal]] articles, and [[software]] components.<ref>{{Cite web |title=RePEc: Research Papers in Economics |url=http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/repec.html.B407 |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=fmwww.bc.edu}}</ref> The project started in 1997.<ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/p/bng/wpaper/11005.html A brief business history of an on-line distribution system for academic research called NEP, 1998–2010]</ref> Its precursor NetEc dates back to 1993.

== Overview ==
RePEc provides links to over 4,400,000 full-text articles, working papers, books, book chapters and software components. Most contributions are freely downloadable, but copyright remains with the author or copyright holder. It is among the largest internet repositories of academic material in the world. the collected data is leveraged by several services, the main ones being the websites IDEAS<ref>[https://ideas.repec.org/ Economics and Finance Research IDEAS/RePEc]</ref> and EconPapers<ref>[https://econpapers.repec.org/ EconPapers]</ref> for exploration of the bibliographic data, and the RePEc Author Service<ref>[https://authors.repec.org/ RePEc Author Service]</ref> for author profiles and [[authority control]]. Many bibliographic providers also use all or part of the data.

Materials to RePEc can be added through a department or institutional [[archive]] or, if no institutional archive is available, through the Munich Personal RePEc Archive.<ref>[https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de Munich Personal RePEc Archive]</ref> Institutions are welcome to join and contribute their materials by establishing and maintaining their own RePEc archive.<ref>[https://ideas.repec.org/stepbystep.html RePEc archive step-by-step tutorial]</ref>

Leading publishers, such as [[Elsevier]] and [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]], have their economics material listed in RePEc. RePEc collaborates with the [[American Economic Association]]'s [[EconLit]] database to provide content from leading universities' working paper or preprint series to EconLit. Over 4000 journals and over 5600 working paper series have registered, for a total of over 4.8 million works, the majority of which are online.

The information in the database is used to create online profiles and rank about 70,000 registered economists.<ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html Top authors]</ref> This allows also to rank institutions<ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.inst.all.html Top institutions]</ref> and regions<ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.country.all.html Country and state rankings]</ref> There are also many other rankings, including cohorts, sub-disciplines and graduate programs.<ref>[https://ideas.repec.org/top/ Economics rankings IDEAS/RePEc]</ref>

RePEc also indexes worldwide economics institutions through its Economic Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC) database.<ref>[http://edirc.repec.org/ EDIRC database]</ref>

RePEc promotes open-access journals and also benefits from [[open access]] for its own [[citation analysis]] efforts.<ref>[http://blog.repec.org/2012/10/26/about-open-access/ About Open Access - The RePEc Blog]</ref>

Since 2018, RePEc has used [[NamSor]] gender classifier to estimate female representation in Economics.<ref>[https://blog.repec.org/2018/11/08/repec-in-october-2018/ RePEc in October 2018]</ref> As of August 2024, 18351 of 69211 economists are female, or a proportion of 26.5%.<ref>[https://ideas.repec.org/top/female.html Female representation in Economics]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of academic databases and search engines]]
* [[Social Science Research Network]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite journal|author = Christian Zimmermann|title = Academic Rankings with RePEc|journal = University of Connecticut, Department of Economics|year = 2007|url = http://www.econ.uconn.edu/working/2007-36r.pdf|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120105163303/http://www.econ.uconn.edu/working/2007-36r.pdf|archive-date = 2012-01-05}}
* {{Cite journal |author = Christian Zimmermann|title = Academic Rankings with RePEc |journal = Econometrics |volume = 1 |issue = 3 |pages = 249–280 | year = 2013 |doi = 10.3390/econometrics1030249 |doi-access = free |hdl = 10419/103628 |hdl-access = free }}

== External links ==
{{Wikidata property|P2428|P4096|P2761}}
* {{Official website|http://repec.org/}}

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