Actuality and Obsolescence of Scientific Literature.

Avramescu, Aurel

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ERIC Number: EJ209838

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Publication Date: 1979-Sep

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Actuality and Obsolescence of Scientific Literature.

Avramescu, Aurel

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v30 n5 p296-303 Sep 1979

The scientific information diffusion theory is used to explain the increased citation frequency of recently published articles in respect to the normal exponential decay of older articles. Appendices illustrate this approach. (Author/FM)

Descriptors: Citations (References), Diagrams, Diffusion, Information Science, Information Theory, Obsolescence, Sciences, Tables (Data)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data

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Language: English

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