Lotka’s law for the Brazilian scientific output published in journals
| Autor: | André A. P. Santos, Raul Matsushita, Sergio Da Silva, Marcelo Perlin, Denis Borenstein, Takeyoshi Imasato |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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05 social sciences
Lotka's law Sample (statistics) 02 engineering and technology Library and Information Sciences Scientometrics Scientific productivity 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences Mathematical economics Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Information Science. 45:705-709 |
| ISSN: | 1741-6485 0165-5515 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0165551518801813 |
| Popis: | Lotka’s law is a power law for the frequency of scholarly publications. We show that Lotka’s law cannot be dismissed after considering a massive sample of the number of publications of Brazilian researchers in journals listed on the SCImago Journal Rank and the Journal Citation Reports. For the SCImago Journal Rank, we found a power law with the Pareto exponent of 0.4 beyond the threshold of 50 papers. This means computing the ‘average number of publications’ of either a researcher or a discipline is of no practical significance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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