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Peer reviewedStewart, John A. – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Illustrates that the Poisson-lognormal model provides good fits to a diverse set of distributions commonly studied in bibliometrics and scientometrics. Topics discussed include applications to the empirical data sets related to the laws of Lotka, Bradford, and Zipf; causal processes that could generate lognormal distributions; and implications for…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Mathematical Formulas, Models, Research Needs
