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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: 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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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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Author Distribution of Literature Information: Lotka’s Law

2017
The basic laws of infometrics are Bradford’s law, Zipf’s law, and Lotka’s law. Lotka’s law explains scientific productivity and the relationship between authors and the quantities of their papers.
Junping Qiu, Rongying Zhao, Siluo Yang, Ke Dong   +3 more
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Lotka's Law and Authorship Distribution in the Journal of ‘Columbia Law Review’

Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 2014
This paper examines the validity of Lotka's law to authorship distribution on the subject Area “LAW”. In the process, we chose to consider the articles published under Columbia Law Review (CLR) since from its inception i.e. during 1901–2012 for the study. Lotka's law constituting the most significant bibliometric law is applied and tested using various
Kiran Savanur, S. Gayathri Devi, P. V. Konnur   +2 more
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Author inflation leads to a breakdown of Lotka's law

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
AbstractIt is empirically shown that, even using the normal or total counting procedure, Lotka's law breaks down when articles with a large, i.e., more than hundred, number of authors are included in the bibliography. The explanation of this phenomenon is that the conditions for an application of the basic success‐breeds‐success model are not fulfilled
Hildrun Kretschmer, Ronald Rousseau
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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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Lotka’s law and authors’ activity of Inzenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal

Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics, 2009
The results of statistical processing of the activity of Inzenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal (IFZh) authors have been given. It has been established that during 1996-2008, the average number of publications per author is equal to approximately 2, and Lotka’s law describes well the nonuniformity in IFZh authors’ activity.
N. V. Pavlyukevich, O. G. Penyazkov, S. P. Fisenko   +2 more
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Personal name headings in COBIB: Testing Lotka’s Law

Scientometrics, 2008
The purpose of this article is to provide information about author productivity as reflected through the number of occurrences of personal name headings in the Slovenian online catalogue COBIB. Only authors associated with monographs are treated. So, author productivity of monographs that has not been widely researched is empirically examined to ...
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Lotka's law and the literature of computer science

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1979
From empirical data on the authorship of scientific papers, Alfred Lotka deduced on inverse-square law relating the number of authors of scientific papers to the number of papers written by each author. A basic assumption underlying Lotka's law is that the number of papers published by a scientist is a measure of his contribution to science.
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