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Lotka's law: a standalone construct

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Bibliometrics

the regularity that the number of authors publishing n papers falls roughly as one over n squared, so few authors write most papers.

In bibliometrics, Lotka's law refers to the regularity that the number of authors publishing n papers falls roughly as one over n squared, so few authors write most papers. This meaning comes from Pao (1986) in Journal of the American Society for Information Science.[1]

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References

Pao, M. L. (1986). An empirical examination of Lotka's law. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 37(1), 26-33. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630370105

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