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An empirical examination of Lotka's law

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There were 48 sets of author productivity data tested against Lotka's Law of xn · y=c. Overwhelming conformity to the law was found. However, only seven data sets fitted the inverse square law. For future tests, representative coverage and good sampling techniques should be adhered to in data compllation. A method is suggested to compute the values of n and c from the data.

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  • Miranda Lee Pao, 1986. "An empirical examination of Lotka's law," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 37(1), pages 26-33, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:37:y:1986:i:1:p:26-33:1
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.4630370105
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    1. M. Ausloos, 2013. "A scientometrics law about co-authors and their ranking: the co-author core," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 95(3), pages 895-909, June.

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