Where Have All the Working Papers Gone? Evidence from Four Major Economics Working Paper Series

19 Pages Posted: 5 Jun 2020

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Alexandra Baumann

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Klaus Wohlrabe

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute

Date Written: 2020

Abstract

Working papers or preprints have become an important part in the scientific landscape. Such papers present research before (potentially) being published in refereed journals. But is every working paper finally published in a journal? We answer this question for four major working paper series in economics. Based on linked data in RePEc and a random sample we provide an estimate of 66.5% of more than 28,000 investigated working papers that are published in a journal. About 8% are released as a book chapter. For the remaining 25.5% we find no evidence for what happened to the article.

Keywords: working paper, journals, scholary communication, publication analysis, RePEc

JEL Classification: A120, A140

Suggested Citation

Baumann, Alexandra and Wohlrabe, Klaus, Where Have All the Working Papers Gone? Evidence from Four Major Economics Working Paper Series (2020). CESifo Working Paper No. 8328, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3618853 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3618853

Alexandra Baumann (Contact Author)

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Klaus Wohlrabe

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute ( email )

Poschinger Str. 5
Munich, 01069
Germany

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