• Title of article

    Theoretical evidence for empirical findings of A. Pulgarin on Lotka’s law

  • Author/Authors

    Egghe، L نويسنده Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan,Diepenbeek ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی - سال 2012
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    5
  • Abstract
    In [A. Pulgarin. 2012. Dependence of Lotka’s law parameters on the scientific area. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 17(1): 41-50], the author finds negative correlations between the average number of papers per author and the Lotka exponent and the Lotka constant as well as positive correlations between the latter two parameters. He also finds lower values for the latter two parameters in fields or countries with highly concentrated productions (e.g. where there is heavy growth). In the present paper these findings are proved mathematically, based on earlier results on Lotka’s law proved by this author.
  • Journal title
    Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science
  • Serial Year
    2012
  • Journal title
    Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science
  • Record number

    692070