Document (#24847)

Author

Ivancheva, L.E.

Title

¬The non-Gaussian nature of bibliometric and scientometric distributions : a new approach to interpretation

Source

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 52(2001) no.13, S.1100-1105

Year

2001

Abstract

An attempt has been made to give an answer to the question: Why do most bibliometric and scientometric laws reveal characters of Non-Gaussian distributions, i.e., have unduly long "tails"? We tried to apply the approach of the so-called "Universal Law," discovered by G. Stankov (1997, 1998). The basic principle we have used here is that of the reciprocity of energy and space. A new "wave concept" of scientific information has been propounded, in which terms the well-known bibliometric and scientometric distributions find a rather satisfactory explanation. One of the made corollaries is that a = 1 is the most reasonable value for the family of Zipf laws, applied to information or social phenomena.

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