Context: What is RePEc?

Why am I talking to you here?

Context: What is RePEc?

Research Papers in Economics

Mission: enhance the dissemination of research in economics through the democratization of the process for authors and readers

Volunteer initiative started in 1997 (1992)

RePEc.org

How?

1. Institutions hold metadata about their papers on their web/ftp servers
2. RePEc "services" gather that metadata and disseminate it
3. Main services: EconPapers, IDEAS, NEP
4. Others: EconBiz, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, ResearchGate, Econlit, EBSCO/ProQuest, OpenAIRE, Altmetric, etc.

What do we have?

1. 2000 participating archives
2. 56,000 registered authors
3. 2.9M listed items, including over 3200 journals and 5000 working paper series
4. Over 100M measured downloads

Enhancements

1. Author registation
2. Citation analysis
3. ReplicationWiki
4. Linking working papers and articles
5. And more (often crowd-sourced)

Why am I talking to you here?

1. RePEc has a lot of data that can be used for research!

Examples

1. Authors: who, where, when, with whom, by whom, what
2. Institutions: where, who, what
3. Publication outlets: who, how good, how much
4. Papers: by whom, about what, where, how much, when

Concrete examples

1. CollEc
2. CitEc
3. RePEc data used for scholarly research

How

1. Standard way (a bit complicated)
2. API
3. NB: emails and rankings are considered private unless they are on website: no release of mailing lists, rankings anonymized on request

2. RePEc is looking for volunteers!

Volunteering

1. NEP editor
2. RePEc Biblio editor
3. CollEc management
4. CitEc management
5. Anything else that you like! See RePEc for current projects, or a newer one, ArchEc
6. Volunteer opportunities at RePEc