RePEc, a Tool and Open Dataset for and about Economists

Anna Schlaack and Christian Zimmermann

No 2026-018, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: RePEc is an initiative created by economists for economists in 1997. It functions primarily as a bibliographic tool, but it also collects various linked metadata about economists, their institutions, and their impact. Thus, a labor economist may be interested in RePEc beyond literature searches and tracking—namely, as a dataset describing a profession, its members, and their output. This essay describes RePEc’s origins and history, the many facets of its data and how the data can be accessed. It also provides some examples of scholarly studies leveraging RePEc data that could be of interest to labor economists and lead them to other uses of RePEc data.

Keywords: RePEc; dataset; sociology of economics; economics profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A14 J44 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2026-08-26
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2026.018

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