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Lotka's law

Known as: Lotka curve, Lotka law, Lotka s law 
Lotka's law, named after Alfred J. Lotka, is one of a variety of special applications of Zipf's law. It describes the frequency of publication by… 
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Review
2012
Review
2012
Global data mining: An empirical study of current trends, future forecasts and technology diffusions
  • Hsu-Hao Tsai
  • Expert systems with applications
  • 2012
  • Corpus ID: 8341429
2010
2010
Lotka's Law: a viewpoint
Discusses the meaning of author productivity and research productivity and shows the difference between the two. Demonstrates how… 
2002
2002
A new model that generates Lotka's law
In this paper, we develop a new model for a process that generates Lotka's Law. We show that four relatively mild assumptions… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Bibliometric modeling processes and the empirical validity of Lotka's Law
Une litterature abondante porte sur la validite empirique de la loi de Lotka: ces etudes ne sont malheureusement pas concluantes… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Lotka's law: A testing procedure
  • M. Pao
  • Information Processing & Management
  • 1985
  • Corpus ID: 9521241
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Lotka's Law and Computer Science Literature
An experiment to verify the satisfaction of Lotka's law, with the papers published in the area of computer science, is reported… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Lotka's frequency distribution of scientific productivity
  • R. Coile
  • Journal of the American Society for Information…
  • 1977
  • Corpus ID: 205443366
In 1926, Alfred Lotka examined the frequency distribution of scientific productivity of chemists and physicists. After analyzing… 
1975
1975
Lotka's Law and Map Librarianship
  • A. Schorr
  • Journal of the American Society for Information…
  • 1975
  • Corpus ID: 205442968
Lotka's Law states that given the number of authors who have written one article, the number writing multiple articles can be… 
1974
1974
Lotka's Law and Library Science.
n contributions is -i?-of those making one. Though Lotka's study was clearly limited to scientific productivity (his article was… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
"Lotka's law in the humanities?"
  • L. Murphy
  • Journal of the American Society for Information…
  • 1973
  • Corpus ID: 41013847
It is stressed that Lotka's Law was originally only applicable in physical science, specifically chemistry and physics. The more… 
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