Power laws in the information production process

• Other Authors: Egghe, L.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2005.
• Series: Library and information science (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 5.
• Subjects: Bibliometrics.; Library statistics.; Information science > Statistical methods.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849508025
• ISSN: 1876-0562 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S1876-0562(2005)05
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 p.).

This book describes informetric results from the point of view of Lotkaian size-frequency functions, i.e. functions that are decreasing power laws. Explanations and examples of this model are given showing that it is the most important regularity amongst other possible models. This theory is then de...