repec.org

RePEc

Who runs RePEc, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic bibliographic database alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Online since
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Trackers
Prices
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Last price change
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Closest alternative
econlit.org

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs RePEc

RePEc repec.org

RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code

Wikidata: bibliographic database for economics

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience

02 · Privacy

What RePEc tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 11 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.

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We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on RePEc’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to RePEc

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  1. 01
    econlit.org English 1 tracker

    EconLit

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  2. 02

    open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier

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  3. 03
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

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  4. 04
    OpenAlex openalex.org English No trackers

    OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system

    OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.

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  5. 05
    NBER nber.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER

    Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

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  6. 06
    Scopus scopus.com Top 10K English

    online bibliographic database

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  7. 07
    arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    arXiv.org e-Print archive

    online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

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  8. 08

    curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals

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  9. 09
    SciELO scielo.org

    bibliographic database of open access journals

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  10. 10
    IZA iza.org English No trackers

    Welcome | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Welcome to the IZA@LISER Network website

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    Redalyc redalyc.org 1 tracker

    Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc, Red de Revistas Científicas

    Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc. Red de Revistas Científicas. Acceso abierto sin fines de lucro propiedad de la academia. Modelo de acceso abierto diamante.

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  12. 12
    Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

    database of biomedical research

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    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K

    website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research

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  14. 14
    Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

    Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

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  15. 15
    Scholarpedia Journal scholarpedia.org No trackers

    peer-reviewed open-access journal

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  16. 16
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

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  17. 17
    Latindex latindex.org

    Regional Cooperative Online Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal

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    Authorea authorea.com

    online collaborative writing tool and research publishing platform

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    Preprints.org preprints.org

    open-access repository

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    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Zenodo

    research data repository

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04 · History

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05 · Details

How we measure

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The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
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Query
30 ms

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