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Peer reviewedChen, Ye-Sho; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Investigates the relationships between the parameters of the Simon-Yule model and the shapes of three bibliometric distributions: Lotka's Law of Scientific Productivity; Bradford's Law of Bibliometric Scattering; and Zipf's Law of Word Frequency. The results indicate that the probability of a new entry determines the characteristics of all three…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Information Science, Information Utilization, Mathematical Formulas
