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Title: | Author inflation leads to a breakdown of Lotka's law | Authors: | ROUSSEAU, Ronald Kretschmer, Hildrun |
Issue Date: | 2001 | Publisher: | JOHN WILEY & SONS INC | Source: | Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(8). p. 610-614 | Abstract: | It is empirically shown that, even using the normal or total counting procedure, Lotka's law breaks down when articles with a large, i.e., more than hundred, number of authors are included in the bibliography, The explanation of this phenomenon is that the conditions for an application of the basic success-breeds-success model are not fulfilled any more. Studying articles with many authors means dealing with items (the articles) having multiple sources (the authors), hence Egghe's generalized success-breeds-success model, leading to not necessarily decreasing distributions, explains the observed irregularities. | Keywords: | INFORMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; PRODUCTIVITY; ATTRIBUTION; COUNTS | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/7410 | ISSN: | 1532-2882 | DOI: | 10.1002/asi.1118.abs | ISI #: | 000169032200003 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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