The Increasing Reach of the Social Science Research Network. (June 30. 2013)

A media release from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) notes that over the past half year: "Downloads exceeded 1,000,000 per month... Our download counts do not include bots and other crawlers, which would double the numbers. SSRN... continued to play an important role in the distribution and creation of scholarly research.

"The SSRN eLibrary currently has 490,000 paper abstracts from 229,000 authors and received 70,000 new full-text submissions in the past year. SSRN released three new sponsored networks in the past year and they already have over 30,000 full-text papers. The networks are Sustainability (sponsored by GSE Research), Innovation (sponsored by ITX Corp.), and Anthropology (with support from the American Anthropological Association).

"We have extracted 8.5 million references and 8.6 million footnotes, and matched 5.8 million citations from our 400,000 full text papers. The new References from Footnotes technology has extracted 213,000 references and they will begin appearing on SSRN abstract pages later this year."