POWER LAW RELATIONS IN SCIENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY—A SELF‐CONSISTENT INTERPRETATION
- 1 February 1971
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Documentation
- Vol. 27 (2) , 83-97
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026510
Abstract
Several power law relations are found to occur in bibliographic studies of scientific journals, articles, and citations. These can be interpreted in a self-consistent manner in terms of growth parameters of articles, journals, and citations. Similar models have been proposed earlier in physical, biological, and behavioural sciences.Keywords
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