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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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Bibliometrics
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Informetrics
Zipf's law
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2020
2020
Predicting the number of coauthors for researchers: A learning model
Zheng Xie
J. Informetrics
2020
Corpus ID: 214605666
2010
2010
Analysis of Knowledge Management Trend by Bibliometric Approach
Hsu-Hao Tsai
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Jiann-Min Yang
2010
Corpus ID: 28291316
— The analysis is mainly concentrating on the knowledge management literatures productivity trend which subjects as “knowledge…
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2008
2008
Lotka' s Law, Co-authorship and Interdisciplinary Publishing
P. O. Larsen
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M. Ins
2008
Corpus ID: 9478618
The robustness or breakdown of Lotka's law about the frequency distribution of scientific productivity depends on scientific…
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2002
2002
BIBLIOMETRICS OR INFORMETRICS: DISPLAYING REGULARITY IN SCIENTIFIC PATTERNS BY USING STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
A. Erar
2002
Corpus ID: 56035963
The application of Statistical and Mathematical methods in Library and Information Sciences is called Bibliometrics or…
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1998
1998
Cumulative Advantage and Success-Breeds-Success: The Value of Time Pattern Analysis
John C. Huber
Journal of the American Society for Information…
1998
Corpus ID: 8802982
Many different theoretical models can be made to fit empirical informetric data. For the case of the distribution of papers…
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1990
1990
Direct comparison of bibliometric models
M. Kinnucan
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Dietmar Wolfram
Information Processing & Management
1990
Corpus ID: 20968156
1987
1987
Complexity, organization and uncertainty
B. West
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J. Salk
1987
Corpus ID: 120654470
1979
1979
Lotka's law and the literature of computer science
K. Subramanyam
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
1979
Corpus ID: 13329041
From empirical data on the authorship of scientific papers, Alfred Lotka deduced on inverse-square law relating the number of…
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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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