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Pao, Miranda Lee – Information Processing and Management, 1985
A step-by-step outline is presented for testing the applicability of Lotka's law of scientific productivity. Steps include the computation of the values of the exponent and constant based on Lotka's method and the test for significance of observed frequency distribution against the estimated theoretical distribution derived from Lotka's formula.…
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Shaw, W. M., Jr. – Information Processing and Management, 1990
These two articles discuss clustering structure in the Cystic Fibrosis Document Collection, which is derived from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file. The exhaustivity of four subject representations and two citation representations is examined, and descriptor-weight thresholds and similarity thresholds are used to compute…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis