Sites like RePEc

01 · Entity

About RePEc

RePEc repec.org

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

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

Wikidata: bibliographic database for economics

Top 10K · #5,806 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

A volunteer-run, decentralized bibliographic index of economics research, aggregating metadata on working papers, journal articles, book chapters and software from over 2000 publishers, with free services for readers, authors and institutions.

Who it’s for

Economists, researchers, students and academic publishers

Business model

Free, volunteer-run with sponsor-provided infrastructure

• academic bibliographic database
• economics working papers
• journal article index
• author registration
• citation tracking
• economist rankings
• publisher archive setup
• MPRA open-access archive
• IDEAS and EconPapers

02 · Embedding space

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1. 01
   arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English

   arXiv.org e-Print archive

   online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

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   NBER nber.org Top 10K English

   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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3. 03
   SSRN ssrn.com Top 10K

   Content Blocked

   online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content

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4. 04
   Academia.edu academia.edu Top 1K

   open repository of academic articles

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5. 05
   Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

   Zenodo

   research data repository

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6. 06
   Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

   database of biomedical research

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7. 07
   Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

   Our World in Data

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

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8. 08
   Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org Top 10K English

   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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9. 09
   De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

   De Gruyter Brill

   De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

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10. 10
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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11. 11
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

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    medRxiv medrxiv.org Top 10K English

    medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences

    medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication

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13. 13
    ResearchGate researchgate.net Top 1K English

    ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

    commercial scientific social network

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14. 14
    frontiersin.org Top 1K English

    Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals

    Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.

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15. 15
    proquest.com Top 10K

    set of journals

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16. 16
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

    ScienceDirect

    journal

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17. 17
    Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English

    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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    WorldCat worldcat.org Top 10K English

    WorldCat.org

    WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.

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19. 19
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

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    lww.com Top 10K English

    Browse

    book publishing imprint descended in part from J. B. Lippincott & Co. and Lea Brothers

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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to repec.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones RePEc uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What RePEc is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.