Note on a strongly unimodal bibliometric size frequency distribution
Journal of the American Society for Information SciencePublished 1 May 1992
H. S. Sichel
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Abstract
The number of references at the end of scientific research papers form a strongly unimodal frequency distribution. It is shown that the generalized inverse Gaussian-Poisson distribution fits such unimodal data extremely well. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Computer ScienceEnvironmental Science