“I joined SSRN over 20 years ago, and it has been my go-to mechanism to distribute scholarship to the wider academic community. Virtually every manuscript that I’ve drafted goes on SSRN before it gets submitted to publication.

About SSRN SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of preprints and research papers and is composed of a number of specialized research networks.

Browse by Network & Subject Area SSRN eLibrary Statistics: Papers & Authors Abstracts: 1,992,503 Full Text Papers: 1,833,643 Authors: 2,962,867 Papers received: (last 12 months) 279,219 Paper Downloads To date: 404,992,648 Last 12 months: 60,368,595 Last 30 days: 6,145,872 References and Citations Total References: 56,560,566 Total Citations ...

SSRN, abbreviated from Social Science Research Network, is an open access research platform that functions as a repository for sharing early-stage research [1] and preprints.

Create an Account SSRN Membership is always free. By creating an account, you can easily share and revise your research; view and download the latest research in your field; and interact with thousands of scholars worldwide.

Create an Account SSRN Membership is always free. By creating an account, you can easily share and revise your research; view and download the latest research in your field; and interact with thousands of scholars worldwide.

SSRN eLibrary Statistics: Papers & Authors Abstracts: 1,992,503 Full Text Papers: 1,833,643 Authors: 2,962,867 Papers received: (last 12 months) 279,219 Paper Downloads To date: 404,992,648 Last 12 months: 60,368,595 Last 30 days: 6,145,872 References and Citations Total References: 56,560,566 Total Citations: 2,865,147

SSRN is an open-access online repository of pre-prints papers in Social Sciences such as Accounting, Economics, Finance, Humanities, Law and more

SSRN facilitates open access to cutting-edge scholarship, empowering authors to produce better research faster. Academic research papers are uploaded directly to SSRN by authors, reviewed by qualified classifiers and posted for worldwide readers to access and download.

Social Sciences Social Sciences are those disciplines that study (a) institutions and functioning of human society and the interpersonal relationships of individuals as members of society; (b) a particular phase or aspect of human society. Social Sciences include social and behavioral sciences and encompass areas such as sociology, economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology ...