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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
B. K. Sen
2010
Corpus ID: 59699861
Discusses the meaning of author productivity and research productivity and shows the difference between the two. Demonstrates how…
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2002
2002
A new model that generates Lotka's law
John C. Huber
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
2002
Corpus ID: 35729280
In this paper, we develop a new model for a process that generates Lotka's Law. We show that four relatively mild assumptions…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Bibliometric modeling processes and the empirical validity of Lotka's Law
P. Nicholls
JASIS
1989
Corpus ID: 38484526
Une litterature abondante porte sur la validite empirique de la loi de Lotka: ces etudes ne sont malheureusement pas concluantes…
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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
T. Radhakrishnan
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R. Kernizan
Journal of the American Society for Information…
1979
Corpus ID: 33392780
An experiment to verify the satisfaction of Lotka's law, with the papers published in the area of computer science, is reported…
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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…
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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…
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1974
1974
Lotka's Law and Library Science.
A. Schorr
1974
Corpus ID: 59692766
n contributions is -i?-of those making one. Though Lotka's study was clearly limited to scientific productivity (his article was…
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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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