[RePEc-announce] RePEc in March 2025

[Christian Zimmermann]

March 2025 was marked by the EconPapers and LogEc sites being down for
about 2 weeks. Indeed, they had to be shut off because their excessive
traffic was negatively affecting networks at the host institution. This is
an issue with many bibliographic content providers, as AI robots are
furiously trying to gather information by scraping (very unintelligently)
any website they can access. IDEAS has also seen this, and had to shut off
occasionally some function to accommodate the traffic, which as this point
is less than 1% human.

After the usual audit removing non-human traffic, we counted in March
326,122 file downloads and 1,510,699 abstract views from the reporting
RePEc site, EconPapers, IDEAS, and NEP. We welcomed two new archives:
Journal of Finance Letters and World Biologica. And we reached the
following milestones:

24,000 economists listed in the RePEc Genealogy

Christian Zimmermann
https://ideas.repec.org/zimm/
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