EconStor in April 2013

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

• Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck
• Working Papers in Economics and Finance, University of Salzburg
• Working Papers, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
• Country Studies, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
• Discussion Papers, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Project Group Civil Engagement

With 1537 new publications we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to nearly 52500 by the end of April. The total number of downloads in April has climbed to 215039. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Verick, Sher; Islam, Iyanatul: “The great recession of 2008 – 2009: Causes, consequences and policy responses” (981)
2. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (819)
3. Lawson, David; Klasen, Stephan: „The impact of population growth on economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda“ (586)
4. Møller, Bjørn: „The Somali conflict: The role of external actors“ (586)
5. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“(554)

Social Media references as data for RePEc rankings? Network starts Online Voting

Citation analysis in RePEc is very popular among Economists worldwide. So far it is mainly based on citations in reference lists of Journal Articles and Working Papers. But as Social Media are more and more used not only for academic networking, but also for scholarly discussions, an extended impact analysis is up for discussion.

In his latest Blog Entry RePEc member Christian Zimmermann proposes some extensions to the existing RePEc rankings, e.g. the inclusion of Wikipedia or Economics Blogs. In order to get a better understanding of the Community View, Zimmermann started an Online Voting. The results are open for everyone and show so far, that there’s a split within Economists, with one part being open for the inclusion of Social Media for citation analysis, while others are very sceptical.

This shows, that there’s definitely some change going on the scholarly publication landscape in Economics, but so far Social Media are still controversial, when it comes to quality assessment of research papers. Nevertheless there are tools like Altmetrics, who show, that impact analysis goes beyond journal impact factors. And even large research organisations like the Leibniz Association in Germany with it’s research network “Science 2.o” have started to analyse how Social Media are affecting scholarly communication.

EconStor in March 2013

In March we have added the following e-journals and research paper series to EconStor:

• Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP), Rainer Hampp Verlag
• Berichte der Werkstatt für Organisations- und Personalforschung e.V., Berlin
• Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• CAE Working Papers, Center for Analytical Economics (CAE), Cornell University
• Department of Economics Research Report Series, Department of Economics, The University of Western Ontario
• CIBC Working Paper Series, Centre for Human Capital & Productivity (CIBC), Department of Economics, The University of Western Ontario
• EPRI Working Paper Series, Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, The University of Western Ontario
• Issue Papers, ICTSD EPAs and Regionalism Programme, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

With 950 new publications in March we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to nearly 50900. The total number of downloads in that month was 187.495. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (802)
2. Dilger, Alexander: „Besonderheiten der Bewerbung um Promotionsstellen und -gelegenheiten“ (619)
3. Jürgens, Ulrich: „Corporate governance, innovation, and economic performance: a case study on Volkswagen“ (602)
4. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (599)
5. Bauer, Thomas K.:„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe“ (587)

EconStor in February 2013 hits milestone of 50.000 full text documents

We are happy to announce that we have reached the milestone of 50.000 full text documents by March 6^th, 2013. This means that our content has doubled in the last two years. See also our press release.

In February we have added the following e-journals, research paper and book series to EconStor:

• RWI Projektberichte, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen
• Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln
• International Transport Forum Discussion Papers, International Transport Forum (ITF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers, International Transport Forum (ITF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• German Risk and Insurance Review (GRIR) – Das Open Access E-Journal für Versicherungswissenschaften und Risikomanagement, Seminar für ABWL, Risikomanagement und Versicherungslehre, Universität Köln
• Schumpeter Discussion Papers, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• IW policy papers, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln
• Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Bücher, Rainer Hampp Verlag
• Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series, Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS)

Beyond that download numbers have reached a new record as well in Febuary. We have counted a total number of 193.260 downloads. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.)    von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1145 downloads)

2.)    Dilger, Alexander: „Besonderheiten der Bewerbung um Promotionsstellen und -gelegenheiten“ (773)

3.)    Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (698)

4.)    Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Haucap, Justus: „Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the internet driving competition or market monopolization?“ (579)

5.)    Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (575)

EconStor among the TOP25 repositories in Europe

New edition of webometrics ranking compares repositories worldwide and by region according to several categories.

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 12th edition.

Compared to earlier rankings EconStor has climbed several places and now ranks at number 52 worldwide, with the TOP positions held by SSRN, ArXiv and the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Looking at fulltext content only (category “rich files”), EconStor fares even better, being now number 15 worldwide and number 7 in Europe.

EconStor in January 2013

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

• QED Working Papers, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s Economics Department
• Vienna University of Technology Working Papers in Economic Theory and Policy, Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Wirtschaftsmathematik, ECON WPS

From January 2013 we provide download figures measured in accordance with the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources which will make it easier to compare our figures with other repositories, databases, and Open Access publishers.

With 950 new publications we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 48.462 by the end of January. The total number of downloads in January has climbed to 170.917. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (1.208 downloads)
2. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (1.018)
3. Dilger, Alexander: „Besonderheiten der Bewerbung um Promotionsstellen und -gelegenheiten“ (725)
4. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (598)
5. Moldaschl, Manfred: “Was ist Reflexivität?” (565)

EconStor in December 2012

In December we have included the following e-journals and research paper series in EconStor:

• FFB-Diskussionspapiere, Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg, Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe
• The Open Economics Journal
• Atlantic Review of Economics, Economists Association of La Coruña

With 430 new publications we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 47512 by the end of 2012. The total number of downloads in December added up to 149239. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (735)
2. Bode, Sven: „On the impact of renewable energy support schemes on power prices“ (732)
3. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (559)
4. Bauer, Thomas K.: „High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe“ (473)
5. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (435)

EconStor in November 2012

In November we have added the following e-journals and research paper series to EconStor:

• WZB Discussion Papers, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Junior Research Group Risk and Development
• Bank of Canada Discussion Papers, Bank of Canada, Ottawa
• QSEP Research Reports, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population (QSEP)
• Journal of Choice Modelling
• International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research (IJESAR)
• Estudios de Economia, University of Chile
• e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly
• Working Papers, Universität Osnabrück, Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung
• Research Papers on Innovation, Services and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut, Abteilung I
• New Zealand Trade Consortium Working Papers, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), Wellington
• ISER Working Paper Series, University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• Cardiff Economics Working Papers, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School
• Open Discussion Papers in Economics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics

With nearly 1300 new publications in November we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 47082. The total number of downloads in that month climbed to 184941. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (1071)
2. Wiederhold, Simon; Riener, Gerhard: „Team building and hidden costs of control“ (468)
3. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (558)
4. Bauer, Thomas K.: „High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe“ (526)
5. Bode, Sven: „On the impact of renewable energy support schemes on power prices“ (507)

IZA launches 5 new Open Access Journals

The number of interesting new Open Access Journals in Economics increases, as IZA launches five new field journals

The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) is a private research institute, based in Germany, with the focus on labour market research. They are already editing a prominent Discussion Paper Series (also available on EconStor), which belongs to to the TOP 20 Working Paper Series in RePEc.

On top of that IZA has now started five new Open Access Journals, which focus on the different aspects of Labour Markets:

• IZA Journal of Labor Economics
• IZA Journal of Labor Policy
• IZA Journal of Migration
• IZA Journal of Labor & Development
• IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

All Journals are published with SpringerOpen and do not charge any author fees. Each journal involves peer reviewing, with the focus on a fast decision making and publication process:

Acceptance/rejection decisions are expected to be made “within one month; publication is expected “within two months after submission of the final manuscript.The fast process from the submission to the acceptance/rejection decision is guaranteed by (i) an advanced desk rejection policy and (ii) the fact that only those papers refereed that require minor revisions are accepted while those not accepted are rejected without a detailed referee report. This requires the submission of manuscripts that are considered ready by the author/s for direct publication if found suitable by the editorial team.

With the reputation of the Discussion Paper Series already established, there might be a good chance also for the Journals to enter the ranking lists.

EconStor in October 2012

In October we have made available the following new working paper and research report series on EconStor:

• Schriftenreihe des Lehrstuhls Public und Nonprofit Management, Universität Potsdam
• IFS Reports; Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
• cemmap working papers, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
• EUROMOD Working Paper Series, University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• CREDIT Research Papers, The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)
• HCHE Research Papers, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg Center for Health Economics

751 publications have been newly uploaded in EconStor and we have increased the total amount of full-text documents up to 45769 by October 31, 2012. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (818 downloads)

2. Wiederhold, Simon; Riener, Gerhard: „Team building and hidden costs of control“ (548)

3. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (541)

4. Nunnenkamp, Peter: „Foreign direct investment in developing countries: What policymakers should not do and what economists don’t know“ (484)

5. Moldaschl, Manfred: „Was ist Reflexivität?“ (429)