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Peer reviewedHuber, John C. – Information Processing & Management, 1998
Demonstrates that the statistics of exceedances generates Lotka's Law--a widely-observed distribution of authors of scholarly papers and patents. The Frequency of production (papers or patents per year) and Lifetime (career duration) are exponentially distributed random variables. Empirical, phenomenological, and mathematical development shows…
Descriptors: Authors, Information Dissemination, Patents, Scholarly Journals
