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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.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
Sponsored by the Research Division of the [[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]] and using its IDEAS database, RePEc provides links to over 1,200,000 full-text articles. 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.<br />
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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. Institutions are welcome to join and contribute their materials by establishing and maintaining their own RePEc archive.<br />
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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 1500 journals and over 3300 working paper series have registered, for a total of over 1.2 million articles, the majority of which are online.<br />
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The information in the database is used to rank the more than 50,000 registered economists. [[Andrei Shleifer]] is currently the highest-ranked economist, followed by [[Joseph Stiglitz]] and [[James Heckman]].<ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html Top authors]</ref> The economics department of [[Harvard University]] is ranked first, followed by the [[World Bank]] and the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.inst.all.html Top institutions]</ref> [[Massachusetts]] is the top region, followed by the [[United Kingdom]] and [[California]].<ref>[http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.country.all.html Country and state rankings]</ref> There are also rankings by country and sub-discipline.<br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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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 February 2021, 15894 of 61488 economists are female, or a proportion of 25.8%.<ref>[https://ideas.repec.org/top/female.html Female representation in Economics]</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of academic databases and search engines]]<br />
* [[Social Science Research Network]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{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 }}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{Wikidata property|P2428|P4096|P2761}}<br />
* {{Official website|http://repec.org/}}<br />
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[[Category:Projects established in 1997]]<br />
[[Category:Economics websites]]<br />
[[Category:Bibliographic databases and indexes]]<br />
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[[Category:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis data services]]<br />
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