Economics Literature Search

Search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals

Version Notes (v0.2.0)

v0.2.0 — Fixed search performance issues (queries now ~50x faster). Fixed bug where trend graph and search results used different search scopes. Improved exact phrase matching for quoted terms. Added Journal of Econometrics. Cleaned metadata (removed HTML/XML tags from titles and abstracts). Extracted ~3,800 missing abstracts from full text PDFs.

v0.1.0 — Fixed JFE data issues; JPE data mostly updated (some gaps remain). Added citation counts from OpenAlex to the database. New option to display citation-weighted trend curves, which weight papers by their share of citations within each year.

v0.0.2a — Added Journal of Finance (JF), Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Review of Financial Studies (RFS), Journal of Political Economy (JPE), and Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE).

Query syntax help
  • machine learning - Both terms (implicit AND)
  • "machine learning" - Exact phrase
  • machine or learning - Either term (OR)
  • regression -linear - Exclude term (NOT)
  • machine and learning - Explicit AND
  • Combine: "neural network" or bayesian -frequentist
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