[RePEc-announce] RePEc in November 2003

[Bill Goffe]

Christian said:

> Yet another stellar month for RePEc. Traffic went up once again to new 
> records: 380,488 file downloads and 2,222,213 abstract views. Details are 
> at http://logec.hhs.se/.

Excellent numbers and good to see the growth, but this many abstract
views seems like a lot. If there are 40,000 active econoists (~25,000
AEA members, but certainly doesn't cover all economists) this comes to
55 views per economist, which still seems high for a month. I see
something like 3.5M page views in RFE per year, which seems high too.
Any idea what % is "real" and what is spurious?

         - Bill

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