[RePEc-announce] 2017 at RePEc: A year in review

[Christian Zimmermann]

2017 was a special year for RePEc for two major reasons: First, we 
celebrate the 20 years of RePEc serving the economics community, second we 
held a rare meeting of the major volunteers involved in the project. This 
face-to-face meeting allowed to discussed quite a few issues and in 
particular has set the direction for the next years. We are preparing 
ourselves to be even more open about what we do so that more people can 
participate and help with the initiative. For example, we have opened our 
major internal mailing lists, we created a wiki, a GitHub account and a 
Twitter feed, and are encouraging a new generation to step up to make sure 
RePEc can be there for another 20 years. There is still a lot of work to 
document and open all we do. We hope those who a local for opportunities 
to volunteer watch over our shoulders and raise their hands when they feel 
they can contribute.

What else happened? Of course, we had a large number of new institutions 
and publishers joining RePEc, 70 of them. They helped in adding over 
300,000 pieces of research indexed in RePEc. CitEc, our citation 
extraction project, processed over 120,000 documents, finding over 4 
million references of which 1.6 million were matched with items in RePEc. 
We surpassed 2.5 millions indexed items, 50,000 registered authors, 
facilitated 6 million document downloads (only counting reporting RePEc 
services), and sent 4,000 NEP reports announcing over 40,000 new working 
papers. This is actually just skimming the services we provide to the 
profession, check the RePEc home page for all we do.


Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
Economic Research
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA
https://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   @CZimm_economist