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Lotka's Law and Computer Science Literature

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
AbstractAn experiment to verify the satisfaction of Lotka's law, with the papers published in the area of computer science, is reported. It is seen that the estimates of this law deviate considerably from the observations. Need for further experiments to verify Lotka's law in the area of applied sciences and engineering is emphasized.
T. Radhakrishnan, R. Kernizan
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A relationship between Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, and Zipf's Law

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
A common functional relationship among Lotka's law, Bradford's law, and Zipf's law is derived. The proof takes explicit account of the sequences of observed values of the variables by means of an index. This approach results in a more realistic and precise formulation of each law. © 1986 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Ye-Sho Chen, Ferdinand F. Leimkuhler
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Lotka’s law and author productivity pattern of research in law discipline

Collection and Curation, 2021
Purpose This study aims to analyze the productivity patterns of authors using law literature indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) from 2016 to 2020 based on Lotka’s law. Lotka’s law of scientific productivity provides a platform for studying the variation between the actual and expected authors’ productivity patterns in a subject area ...
Archana Sahu, Puspanjali Jena
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“Lotka's law in the humanities?”

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973
AbstractIt is stressed that Lotka's Law was originally only applicable in physical science, specifically chemistry and physics. The more recent general application of Lotka's Law in non‐physical science, without appropriate new tests of validity, is bemoaned.
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Lotka's law, price's urn, and electronic publishing

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
The thesis of this brief piece is that electronic publishing in its present and future Internet or Internet-like format is sufficiently different that electronic publishing will burgeon and that it will fundamentally change the nature of scholarly pubishing. Why ?
Michael Koenig, Toni Harrell
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CONSEQUENCES OF LOTKA'S LAW FOR THE LAW OF BRADFORD

Journal of Documentation, 1985
In this paper we start from the well‐known fact that from the law of ...
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Lotka's Law and Map Librarianship

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975
AbstractLotka's Law states that given the number of authors who have written one article, the number writing multiple articles can be predicted. Though Lotka's Law was based on a study of the chemistry and physics literature, interest has recently developed as to its possible application to the humanities.
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Empirical validation of Lotka's law

Information Processing & Management, 1986
Abstract Two modifications to the Pao procedure for testing Lotka's law are proposed and applied to 15 samples drawn from the humanities, social sciences, and ...
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Lotka's law: A testing procedure

Information Processing & Management, 1985
Abstract Instead of the commonly accepted inverse square law, Lotka's original formulation was based on a more general inverse power law: x n · y = c . The exponent and the constant must be estimated from the given set of author productivity data. A step-by-step outline is presented for testing the applicability of Lotka's law.
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An exact calculation of Price's law for the law of Lotka

Scientometrics, 1987
Price's law asserts — in its simpliest version — that\(\sqrt N \) authors produce half of the papers made by the total ofN authors.
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