Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Joins OSN Research Centers Papers

We are pleased to announce the WRDS-SSRN collaboration featuring WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award™, and the start of Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Research Paper Series within the Organization Series Network (OSN).

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WHARTON RESEARCH DATA SERVICES (WRDS) RESEARCH PAPER SERIES

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WRDS and SSRN ELEVATE THE VISIBILITY, IMPACT, AND CREDIBILITY OF YOUR RESEARCH INSTITUTION

Impact is the future currency of research

The best financial research is changing policy and practice at firm, regulatory, and national levels, and demonstrating the value of the institutions and researchers who conduct it. Make sure your academic program is making its mark with impact-driven research, supported by WRDS.


WRDS RESEARCH PAPER SERIES

Gain the recognition needed in today's competitive academic landscape

  • Recognition at the institution and researcher-level
  • Press release and social media campaigns highlight the winning institution and authors
  • Increase your Eigenfactor® score - SSRN's weighted measure of an author's citations; visible to all who access SSRN
  • Attract and retain leading faculty and thought leaders
  • Advance your research by driving impact through superior data access, analysis, and modeling tools.

Submit to the WRDS Research Paper Series HERE>>


WRDS-SSRN INNOVATION AWARD™

Honoring Emerging Business Schools

Cite WRDS in your research.
Submit to the WRDS Research Paper Series HERE>> for your school to be considered for the WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award™

Three winners will be selected annually from the WRDS Research Paper Series (RPS) for North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions.


ABOUT WRDS and THE WHARTON SCHOOL

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) provides the leading business intelligence, data analytics, and financial research platform to global institutions - enabling comprehensive thought leadership, historical analysis, and insight into the latest innovations in academic research.

WRDS provides researchers with one location to access over 250 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, ESG, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Marketing, and Statistics. Flexible data delivery options include a powerful web query method that reduces research time, the WRDS Cloud for executing research and strategy development, and the WRDS client server using PCSAS, Matlab, Stata, and R. Our Analytics team, doctoral-level support and rigorous data review and validation give clients the confidence to tailor research within complex databases and create a wide range of reliable data models.

An award-winning data research platform for over 50,000 commercial, academic, and government users in 30+ countries, WRDS is the global gold standard in data management and research - all backed by the credibility and leadership of the Wharton School. http://whartonwrds.com

Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. With a broad global community and one of the most published business school faculties, Wharton creates economic and social value around the world. The Wharton School has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 9,000 participants in executive education programs annually and a powerful alumni network of 95,000 graduates.


SSRN's eLIBRARY

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SSRN supports open access by allowing authors to upload papers to the eLibrary for free through the SSRN User HeadQuarters at http://hq.ssrn.com, and by providing free downloading of those papers.

Downloads from the SSRN eLibrary in the past 12 months total more than 13.5 million, with more than 110.2 million downloads since inception.

SSRN's PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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SSRN's MISSION
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ORGANIZATION SERIES NETWORK
The Organization Series Network Research Paper Series is used by universities or institutions with varied research from multiple schools or departments. It allows multi-subject area research to be listed under a single organization name. Creating a Research Paper Series (RPS) provides your institution a way to showcase research from faculty and staff while advancing exposure to their work by distributing it throughout our comprehensive network. Please contact RPS@ssrn.com for more information.

Sincerely,

Director
Organization Series Network