Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ488237
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Publication Date: 1994
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Special Features of the Author-Publication Relationship and a New Explanation of Lotka's Law Based on Convolution Theory.
Egghe, L.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v45 n6 p422-27 Jul 1994
Discusses structural differences between author-publication systems and journal-article systems, i.e., articles can have more than one author. Frequency functions are examined; and a new conceptual explanation of Lotka's Law, based on convolution theory, is proposed. (Contains eight references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliometrics, Mathematical Formulas, Scholarly Journals, Statistical Distributions
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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