EconStor in September 2012: 45000 full text documents and 1 million downloads!

We are pleased to announce that we have increased our total amount of full text documents up to 45000. In addition EconStor has reached 1 million downloads so far in 2012.

New content: In the previous month we have been able to upload the following e-journals, conference proceedings and working paper series in EconStor:

• Department of Economics Working Paper Series, University of Utah
• Working Papers, UC Santa Cruz Economics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Working Papers, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• ARTNeT Working Paper Series, Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade
• Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts
• Working Paper Series, International Center for Insurance Regulation (ICIR), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
• Working Papers, Santa Cruz Institute for International Economics (SCIIE), University of California, Santa Cruz
• Working Papers, Department of Economics, Brown University
• Budgetary Research Review (BRR)
• Conference Proceedings, Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012 (Göttingen)
• Discussion Papers, Abteilung Ökonomik des Wandels, WZB Berlin
• International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (IJMESS)

The Top 5 most downloaded papers in September 2012 were:

1. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (581 downloads)

2. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (368)

3. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (360)

4. Woessmann, Ludger; Hanushek, Eric Alan: „Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries“ (353)

5. Nunnenkamp, Peter: „Foreign direct investment in developing countries: What policymakers should not do and what economists don’t know“ (329)

IZA paper provides new ranking for German Economic Research Institutes

A new IZA paper by Rolf Ketzler and Klaus F Zimmermann presents a ranking for German economic research institutes (all part of the Leibniz Association) based on their publications in SSCI-Journals from 2000-2009.

In the results of the raw data, ZEW Mannheim holds the leading position with 1,511 citations, followed by DIW Berlin (1,189 citations),  ifo Munich (753 citations), IfW Kiel (593 citations), RWI Essen (382 citations) and IWH Halle (90 citations).

The authors also found an employer and publisher bias among the cites of published articles of research staff from the German research institutes: If from the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), articles have significantly more cites than if from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) or one of the others. If published in a Springer journal, the articles receive more cites than with Blackwell, and if published with Sage, the articles receive significantly less cites than with Blackwell.

Handelsblatt Ranking causes uproar among German Business Economists

The German Business Newspaper Handelsblatt publishes annual rankings on German Economists and Business Economists based on their publication output. This years ranking (which was published today), caused a big uproar beforehand among  researchers. As a result, over 300 Professors (about 11% of all Business Economists In Germany) opted out, which means, that they are no longer included in the ranking.  This seems quite a number but, looking at the research output of  the boycotteurs in more detail, one finds out, that most of  them are not very active in publishing research articles, in fact only about 6-7% are among  the TOP100 of the Handelsblatt Ranking.

Nevertheless this behaviour brought up a national debate about the sense and nonsense of rankings and the right parameters to choose for evaluation. Most of this debate is unfortunately available only in German, but there are also a few English blogposts out there, e.g. from the “Lumpy Economist” and “Econ Tidbits”.

EconStor in August 2012

In August we have been able to upload the following new working paper series, conference proceedings and e-journals:

• NBER Reporter Online, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• SOEP Survey Papers, DIW Berlin – Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, SOEP
• Politikberatung kompakt, DIW Berlin – Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
• RWI Konjunkturberichte, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• RWI Materialien, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• Staff Reports, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• KBI kompakt, Karl-Bräuer-Institut des Bundes der Steuerzahler
• Schriften aus dem Institut für Mittelstandsforschung, Universität Lüneburg
• 23rd European Regional ITS Conference, Vienna 2012, International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
• Discussion Papers, Schumpeter Junior Research Group, Position Formation in the EU Commission, WZB Berlin
• Discussion Papers, WZB Rule of Law Center, WZB Berlin
• Papers on International Political Economy, Freie Universität Berlin, Arbeitsstelle für Internationale Politische Ökonomie

1646 publications have been newly uploaded in EconStor and we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 42500 by August 31, 2012.

Download figures continue to stay at a high level. The total number of downloads in August reached 113619. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (648 downloads)

2. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (444)

3. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (315)

4. Seibel, Hans Dieter: „Does History Matter? The Old and the New World of Microfinance in Europe and Asia“ (314)

5. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (312)

EconStor in July 2012

In July we have added the following e-journals and working paper series to EconStor:

• WZBrief Arbeit, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
• WZBrief Bildung, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
• WZBrief Zivilengagement, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
• SIMAT Arbeitspapiere, Fachhochschule Stralsund, Stralsund Information Management Team (SIMAT)
• Working Papers, University of Munich, Munich School of Management, Institute for Information Systems and New Media
• Paper Series of the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Kiel University
• Romanian Journal of Fiscal Policy (RJFP)
• Working Paper Series, University of Cologne, Department of Business Policy and Logistics

With nearly 650 new publications in July we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 40,869. The total number of downloads in July climbed to 121,625. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (769)
2. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (471)
3. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (468)
4. Moldaschl, Manfred: „Was ist Reflexivität?“ (409)
5. von der Lippe, Peter: „Deskriptive Statistik: Formeln, Aufgaben, Klausurtraining“ (308)

EconStor in June 2012: now containing more than 40000 full text documents!

We are pleased to announce that EconStor has passed the 40000 full text document milestone by June 22, 2012. Great thanks to all our authors, contributors and partners.

In June we have been able to upload the following new working paper series and e-journals:

• Wuppertal Reports, Wuppertal Institut
• Wuppertal Spezial, Wuppertal Institut
• Wuppertaler Studienarbeiten zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung, Wuppertal Institut
• Impulse zur WachstumsWende, Wuppertal Institut
• Arbeitsberichte des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
• IPE Working Papers, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin (HWR), Institute for International Economy
• Mitteilungen des Instituts für Versicherungswissenschaft, Universität zu Köln
• Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla
• Working Papers, ERCIS – European Research Center for Information Systems, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
• Arbeitspapiere des Lehrstuhls für BWL, insbes. Controlling, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster
• Arbeitsberichte des Instituts für Forstökonomie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Forstökonomie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

1284 publications have been newly uploaded in EconStor and we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 40222 by June 30, 2012.

Download figures continue to stay at a high level. The total number of downloads in June reached 106378. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (1010 downloads)

2. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (446)

3. Moldaschl, Manfred: „Was ist Reflexivität?“ (414)

4. Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (359)

5. Hartz, Ronald: „Max Weber: “Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus”“ (323)

EconStor in May 2012

This month we are happy to announce the following e-journals and working paper series which have been added to EconStor:

• jbm – Journal of Business Market Management, Free University Berlin
• Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods, International Scientific Press
• Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis, International Scientific Press
• DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Berlin
• UFZ Reports, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
• UO Working Papers, Chair of Management and Organization, University of Augsburg
• PFH Research Papers, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen
• ICB Research Reports, Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB), University Duisburg-Essen
• Schriften zur Organisationswissenschaft, Chair of Organization Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
• Beiträge zur Controlling-Forschung, Chair of Accounting and Controlling, University of Kaiserslautern
• Controlling-Studien, Chair of Accounting and Controlling, University of Kaiserslautern

With almost 500 new titles in May our overall number of pdf documents raised up to 39,000. And we have counted an increasing number of pdf downloads during the last month: 118,175. EconStor’s Top 5 most downloaded papers in May were:

1. Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (869 downloads)
2. Pon, Bryan; Kenney, Martin: „Structuring the smartphone industry: Is the mobile internet OS platform the key?“ (635)
3. Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (575)
4. Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (564)
5. Eisend, Martin: „Metaanalyse: Einführung und kritische Diskussion“ (385)

EconStor now integrated into OpenScout

Our  publication  server EconStor now has added a further dissemination channel for it’s content. Besides Google Scholar, RePEc, BASE, EconBizOpen,  Economists Online and LeibnizOpen, the publications from our repository can now also be found via OpenScout. The portal is funded by the European Union and provides open content for management education and training.

New survey shows: Economists sympathize with publishing reforms and Open Access

A recent ZBW survey among German economists shows that they sympathize with the Elsevier boycott and Open Access, but still support the established reputation and ranking systems

Right now scientists from around the world are boycotting the Elsevier publishing house. The dominant magazine publisher stands accused of monopolizing scientific content by only making it accessible to the public for astronomical subscription prices. In contrast to this, the Open Access community requests that all publicly financed research findings should be made accessible for free. In early May, the ZBW held a survey regarding the current Elsevier boycott and the subject of Open Access which found that the established system of expensive subscription magazines is indeed unpopular, but is largely upheld because of a shortage of alternatives.

Read the full press release here

EconStor in April 2012: now among the TOP 15 RePEc Archives

We are pleased to announce that EconStor is now among the TOP 15 largest contributors to the RePEc database processing more than 13000 title data from 195 series and over 90 institutions. With more than 1.2 million records contributed from over 1400 archives in the world RePEc – Research Papers in Economics is one of the most comprehensive databases for economic research. Starting in 2006 EconStor has developed a close collaboration with RePEc. In 2010 we have established a national input service for German institutions by disseminating title data for entire series and journals into the RePEc network.

New content: In April 2012 we have been able to upload the following working and discussion paper series in EconStor:

• The Constitutional Economics Network Working Papers, Department of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory, University of Freiburg
• Discussion Papers, Research Professorship Demographic Development, Social Change, and Social Capital, WZB Berlin
• Discussion Papers, Research Group Globalization, Work, and Production, WZB Berlin
• Reutlinger Diskussionsbeiträge zu Marketing & Management, ESB Business School, Reutlingen University
• Forschung Aktuell, Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Westfälische Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences

1205 publications have been newly uploaded in EconStor and we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 38500. The total number of downloads in April climbed to 105700. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1.) Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh: „Corporate governance in India“ (1282 downloads)

2.) Pon, Bryan; Kenney, Martin: „Structuring the smartphone industry: Is the mobile internet OS platform the key?“ (749)

3.) Hauser, Ulrike; Lorenz, Bettina: „Herstellermarke vs. Handelsmarke“ (707)

4.) Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.: „Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“ (510)

5.) Gottschalk, Jan: „An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“ (375)