EconStor

Latest screenshot: 2024-07-17

Access to search interface:

open

Last major interface update:

N/A

Owner of search system:

ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Location of system headquarters:

Kiel and Hamburg, DE

Year of launch:

2009

Type:

Repository

URL:

https://www.econstor.eu/econbiz-search

Help URL:

https://www.econstor.eu/faq

Twitter:

@ZBW_news

Description of search system (by system owner)

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW. The full texts collected here (mostly working papers, but also journal articles, conference proceedings, etc.) are all freely accessible according to the principles of Open Access. Authors and editors can also submit papers to EconStor free of charge. EconStor is among the largest repositories in its discipline with 247,016 full-texts. More than 500 institutions use it for the digital dissemination of their publications in Open Access. EconStor is also an important input service for RePEc, where it is one of the most highly frequented archives. Moreover we also distribute our titles to search engines like Google, Google Scholar or BASE and to academic databases like WorldCat, OpenAire and EconBiz.

Total coverage:

247.02K

Year-over-year growth (2021-2022):

-40.95%

Subject coverage:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (62.17 %); Business, Management and Accounting (13.35 %); Social Sciences (12.67 %)

Retrospective coverage:

1949–2023

Record types:

Open Access records:

247.02K / 100.00%

Search functionality and interface

Systematic keyword searching:

limited

Backward citation searching:

sufficient

Forward citation searching:

sufficient

Query builder:

Search history:

Match preview:

Sorting options:

Query

Latency with short query:

0.5 seconds

Latency with long query:

0.8 seconds

Controlled vocabulary:

Field codes:

Full text search:

Search string length (narrow):

250 terms max.

Search string length (wide):

250 terms max.

Language support: Chinese:

Language support: Cyrillic:

Truncation:

Wildcards:

Keyword position irrelevant:

Longer strings, fewer hits:

Automatic query expansion (stemming):

Verbatim queries:

Reproducible queries (time):

Reproducible queries (locations):

Operators

Search operators:

Boolean 'OR':

Boolean 'AND':

Boolean 'NOT':

Proximity operator:

Boolean works exact:

Nested search (parentheses):

Citation search / filtering

Record type filters:

Results filters:

Suggested related records:

Supported by bibliometric tools:

N/A

Backward citation information:

Backward citation score:

22.05%

Forward citation information:

Forward citation score:

0.53%

Retrieval

Number of accessible records:

Full

Bulk select records:

Bulk export records:

Export formats:

API:

Bulk select records' backward citations:

Bulk export backward citations:

Bulk select records' forward citations:

Bulk export forward citations:

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