An empirical examination of Lotka's law¶
Pao. (1986). An empirical examination of Lotka's law. Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
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- Lotka's Law
- Lotka derived the regularity from a study of chemistry and physics publication records; subsequent bibliometric work has repeatedly tested the inverse-square pattern across scientific disciplines, with the fitted exponent varying across fields and time periods
This sourceA 48-dataset test of Lotka's law that found conformity to the general xn*y=c form but only seven datasets fitting the inverse square, evidence that the fitted exponent varies across datasets.
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- Lotka derived the regularity from a study of chemistry and physics publication records; subsequent bibliometric work has repeatedly tested the inverse-square pattern across scientific disciplines, with the fitted exponent varying across fields and time periods
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