EconStor in June 2014

In June we have included the following research paper series and one journal in EconStor:

• Hochschule Konstanz, Konstanz Institut für Corporate Governance, KICG-Forschungspapiere
• htw saar, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Schriftenreihe Logistik
• Institut Arbeit und Wirtschaft (IAW), Universität Bremen / Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen, Reihe Arbeit und Wirtschaft in Bremen
• Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum (WWZ), WWZ Studien
• Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich, AMS info
• Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich, AMS report
• The International Journal of Management Science and Information Technology (IJMSIT)
• Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability IMFS, Working Paper Series
• Beiträge der Hochschule Pforzheim
• FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management, Essen, Tagungsbände

864 new items have been added and the total number of full-text documents amounted to 77571 by the end of June. We have counted 278590 downloads in that month. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) Klasen, Stephan; Lawson, David: „The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda“ (1112 downloads)

2.) von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1017)

3.) Grob, Heinz Lothar (ed.); Vossen, Gottfried (ed.): „Entwicklungen im Web 2.0 aus technischer, ökonomischer und sozialer Sicht“ (604)

4.) Delfmann, Werner; Albers, Sascha: „Supply chain management in the global context“ (522)

5.) Gundlach, Erich: „Human capital and economic development : a macroeconomic assessment“ (506)

EconStor now in RePec TOP 10

Latest statistics sees EconStor among the ten most heavily used archives in RePec

Most Economists know, that RePEc publishes rankings on publications, authors and research institutions.  Less known is the fact, that RePec also provides statistics on it’s contributing archives and how they perform. These archives can come from university faculties (e.g. for their working papers), from publishers (for their journals) or from repositories (either institutional or subject based). A ranking of the largest archives is provided on the RePEc homepage (see also screenshot on the right).

As a subject repository with a focus on the German Economics community EconStor provides it’s RePEc input services for over 100 institutions, which places as amont the TOP 20 archives with respect to size.

But even more pleasant (and also more important to our customers) is the fact, that papers on EconStor are also heavily used. Looking at the detailed LogEc statistics for all contributing archives in RePEc, we find that EconStor (acronym “zbw”) is at number 10 concerning the use of our archives (number of downloads).

EconStor in May 2014

In May we have included the following research paper series in EconStor:

• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Institute of Demography, VID Working Papers
• Thünen-Institut, Work report of the Institute for World Forestry
• ESMT European School of Management and Technology, ESMT Working Papers

803 new items have been added and the total number of full-text documents was 76707 by the end of May. In addition we have counted 297941 downloads in that month. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) Klasen, Stephan; Lawson, David: „The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda“ (1121 downloads)

2.) von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1058)

3.) Delfmann, Werner; Albers, Sascha: „Supply chain management in the global context“ (596)

4.) Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (509)

5.) Grob, Heinz Lothar (ed.); Vossen, Gottfried (ed.): „Entwicklungen im Web 2.0 aus technischer, ökonomischer und sozialer Sicht“ (502)

EconStor in April 2014

In April we have included the following research paper series and journals in EconStor:

• HU Berlin, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften, Department für Agrarökonomie, Working Paper
• The Global Labour University (GLU), Global Labour University Working Papers
• University of Piraeus, SPOUDAI – Journal of Economics and Business
• Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Department of Economics, Working Papers
• Queen’s University Belfast, Queen’s University Centre for Economic History, QUCEH Working Paper Series
• Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung (GWS), GWS Research Reports
• Universität Kassel, Fachgebiet Umwelt- und Verhaltensökonomik, reihe empirische analysen
• Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), LIS Working Paper Series

1214 new items have been added and the total amount of full-text documents reached 75904 by the end of April. The total number of downloads in April climbed to 305.357. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (895)

2.) Klasen, Stephan; Lawson, David: „The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda“ (884)

3.) Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii: „Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality“ (706)

4.) Keller, Sara; Schanz, Deborah: „Measuring tax attractiveness across countries“ (584)

5.) Delfmann, Werner; Albers, Sascha: „Supply chain management in the global context“ (555)

EconStor in March 2014

In March we have included the following research paper series and journals in EconStor:

• Universität Jena und Universität Halle: Working Papers on Global Financial Markets
• Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung (GWS), Osnabrück: GWS Discussion Papers
• SFB/TR 15: Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems: Discussion Papers
• Opole University: Economic and Environmental Studies: A Journal for Sustainable Development (E&ES)
• African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi: AERC Scoping Studies on China-Africa Economic Relations

2108 new items have been included and the total amount of full-text documents reached 74690 by the end of March. The total number of downloads in March climbed to 278135. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1004)

2.) Klasen, Stephan; Lawson, David: „The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda“ (961)

3.) Delfmann, Werner; Albers, Sascha: „Supply chain management in the global context“ (547)

4.) Detzer, Daniel; Herr, Hansjörg: „Theories of financial crises: An overview“ (524)

5.) Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (481)

EconStor in February 2014

 In February we have included the following research paper series and journals in EconStor:

• The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University, ISER Discussion Papers
• Universität Konstanz, Diskussionsbeiträge, Serie B: Finanzwissenschaftliche Arbeitspapiere
• Universität Konstanz, Diskussionsbeiträge, Serie C: Betriebswirtschaftliche Beiträge
• Universität Konstanz, Discussion Papers, Center for International Labor Economics (CILE)
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Journal of Labor Policy  
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Journal of European Labor Studies  
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Journal of Labor & Development  
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Journal of Labor Economics  
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Journal of Migration  
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Policy Papers
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Standpunkte

With 1576 new items we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 72482 by the end of February. The total number of downloads in February climbed to 226147. Our Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1195)

2.) Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (427)

3.) Gundlach, Erich: „[Book Review of] Easterly, William: The elusive quest for growth : economists’ adventures and misadventures in the tropics : Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001“ (349)

4.) Brau, James C.; Woller, Gary M.: „Microfinance: A comprehensive review of the existing literature“ (334)

5.) Ács, Zoltán J.; Virgill, Nicola: „Entrepreneurship in developing countries“ (329)

EconStor in January 2014

In January we have included the following research paper series in EconStor:

• Textos para Discussão, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
• eabh Papers, The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH)
• GlobalFood Discussion Papers, RTG 1666: “GlobalFood”, Universität Göttingen
• Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre Poverty, Equity and Growth, Universität Göttingen
• Discussion Papers, Projektgruppe Modes of Economic Governance, WZB
• Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsgeographie und Regionalentwicklung, Institut für Geographie, Universität Bremen
• LEM Working Paper Series, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
• IAB-Stellungnahme: Ausgewählte Beratungsergebnisse des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
• IDB Working Paper Series, Inter-American Development Bank
• Flensburger Hefte zu Unternehmertum und Mittelstand, Dr. Werner Jackstädt-Zentrum für Unternehmertum und Mittelstand
• SAFE Working Papers, Center of Excellence SAFE, Universität Frankfurt
• White Paper Series, Center of Excellence SAFE, Universität Frankfurt 
• Research Papers in Economics, Fachbereich IV – Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier

With 2828 new items we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 70906 by the end of January. The total number of downloads in January reached 203.259. Our Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1336)

2.) Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew: „Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations“ (668)

3.) Dreyer, Dirk; Oehler, Andreas: „Werttreiber im Dienstleistungsprozess : Eine Analyse anhand der Wertkette nach Porter“ (350)

4.) Kreutzer, Ralf T.; Hinz, Jule: „Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Social Media Marketing“ (340)

5.) Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (340)

Webometrics Ranking confirms: EconStor among the 20 biggest Repositories worldwide

New edition of webometrics ranking now also includes Altmetrics indicators. EconStor ranks at number 17 concerning full-text documents.

The “Ranking Web of Repositories” is a service provided by the Spanish Reseseach Organization CSIC. Besides comparing repositories it also ranks Universities, Business Schools and Hospitals. The repository ranking is published every 6 months, now in it’s 14th edition.

The latest edition, which was published this week, introduced a new element among the relevant criteria for the ranking: The “Altmetrics”-Element (which accounts for 25% of the ranking) is monitoring services like Twitter, Wikipedia and Google+ and looks up, how often repository documents are mentioned in these service.

The new Webometrics repository ranking sees EconStor at number 45 (out of 1750 repositories worldwide) in the overall ranking. When it comes to the number of PDF-Documents within a repository (category “rich files”), EconStor comes out even better at Number 17. Concerning the coverage in Google Scholar, we rank at number 21.

EconStor in December 2013

In December we have included the following proceedings and research paper series in EconStor:

• Proceedings of the 24th European Regional ITS Conference, Florence 2013
• ZEF Working Papers, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
• ROME Discussion Paper Series, Research Network “Research on Money in the Economy” (ROME)
• Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Organisations- und Innovationsforschung (SOI), Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Stuttgart

With 464 new items we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 68078 by the end of December. Over the year 2013 we have added more than 20000 new titles to  EconStor. The total number of downloads in December climbed to 226441. Our Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S.: „Happiness of economists“ (821)

2.) von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (694)

3.) Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger: „The economics of international differences in educational achievement“ (388)

4.) Udomkerdmongkol, Manop; Görg, Holger; Morrissey, Oliver: „Foreign direct investment and exchange rates: A case study of US FDI in emerging market countries“ (363)

5.) Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (358)

EconStor in November 2013

In November the following research paper series have been added to EconStor:

• DSi-Schriften, DSi – Deutsches Steuerzahlerinstitut des Bundes der Steuerzahler
• EIB Working Papers, European Investment Bank (EIB)
• CASE Network Reports, Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw
• Quaderni di Dipartimento, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi (EPMQ), Università degli Studi di Pavia
• Documentos de Trabajo, Investigaciones Económicas (ie), Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA)
• Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
• Documentos de Trabajo, Centro de Estudios sobre Población, Empleo y Desarrollo (CEPED), Universidad de Buenos Aires
• HEG Working Papers, Health Economics Group (HEG), University of East Anglia

The number of newly uploaded papers was 2,798 while the total number of downloads in November reached 232,025. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Delfmann, Werner; Albers, Sascha: „Supply chain management in the global context“ (778)
2. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (761)
3. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (702)
4. Klasen, Stephan; Lawson, David: „The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda“ (654)
5. Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (425)