NEP-all Issues and Average Size As shown in Figure 2, nep-all issue size steadily increases over the years while the number of issues nep-all produces annually remains about the same. This implies that the NEP service grows considerably in terms of the number of papers it distributes to individual NEP lists. Each nep-all issue in 2003 contains on average 243 papers, more than quadruple of the issue size in 1998. The most noticeable change in issue size occurred between 2000 and 2001 when the average number of papers each nep-all issue carries jumped from 96 in 2000 to 172 in 2001. In the time period covered in this article, nep-all in total delivered 215 issues that all together consist of 28,433 papers. Once nep-all sends out an issue, it is the individual NEP lists that ultimately select and deliver the papers contained within to their respective list subscribers. There are 56 such individual NEP lists altogether at the time of this writing, excluding nep-all (see Appendix). Figure 3 gives the number of new NEP lists created and the accumulated number of such lists available on a yearly basis.  

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Context 1

... recently arrived in the distributed RePEc databases are selected and compiled by a general editor of nep-all (All New Papers), the overall list that functions as the source provider for individual NEP lists. Each year, nep-all on the average distributes about 40 issues of new economics papers to the editors of individual NEP lists (see Figure 2). Those individual NEP list editors then select papers from nep-all, compile the selected papers into an issue of a NEP report, and disseminate via their own lists to respective list subscribers. ...

Context 2

... then, a total number of 215 nep-all reports have been issued by the end of June in 2003. Figure 2 describes the total number of issues nep-all distributes (i.e., # of issues) and the average number of papers each nep-all issue carries (i.e., issue size) every year from 1998 to 2003. As shown in Figure 2, nep-all issue size steadily increases over the years while the number of issues nep-all produces annually remains about the same. ...

Context 3

... 2 describes the total number of issues nep-all distributes (i.e., # of issues) and the average number of papers each nep-all issue carries (i.e., issue size) every year from 1998 to 2003. As shown in Figure 2, nep-all issue size steadily increases over the years while the number of issues nep-all produces annually remains about the same. This implies that the NEP service grows considerably in terms of the number of papers it distributes to individual NEP lists. ...

Context 4

... 1998, the beginning year of the NEP service, it is understandable that fewer nep-all papers were announced due to several factors (e.g., issue size and number of lists). A leap in the number of announcements was subsequently observed from 2000 to 2001, parallel to the growth of nep-all issue size (see Figure 2). It should be noted that the announcement number in 2003 includes the data for the first half of the year. ...

Context 5

... to Figure 5, the year of 2001 saw the biggest delay in announcing nep- all papers. The significant increase of nep-all issue size (see Figure 2) partially explains this problem in concern. Like in many other situations, human beings need some time to make adjustment to new changes. ...

Context 6

... was anticipated based on common sense that coverage ratio would change as the nep-all issue size gradually increases over the years (see Figure 2). The reality appears to be rather static (r = -0.16, ...