Document (#40700)

Author

Smolinsky, L.J.

Title

Discrete power law with exponential cutoff and Lotka's law

Source

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 68(2017) no.7, S.1792-1795

Year

2017

Series

Brief communication

Abstract

One of the first bibliometric laws appeared in Alfred J. Lotka's 1926 examination of author productivity in chemistry and physics. The result was a productivity distribution described by a power law. In this paper, Lotka's original data on author productivity in chemistry are reconsidered. We define a discrete power law with exponential cutoff, test Lotka's data, and compare the fit to the discrete power law.

Content

Vgl.: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23763/full.

Theme

Informetrie

Object

Lotka-Gesetz

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