Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2017

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.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

First Page

1792

Last Page

1795

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