An empirical examination of Lotka's law
Journal of the American Society for Information SciencePublished 1 January 1986
Miranda Lee Pao
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Abstract
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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Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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