ABS:Saam, Lotka's law reconsidered

[Gretchen Whitney]

Author(s):  Saam NJ; Reiter L
Title:  Lotka's law reconsidered: The evolution of publication and
citation
distributions in scientific fields
Source:  SCIENTOMETRICS 1999, Vol 44, Iss 2, pp 135-155
Addresses:  Saam NJ, Univ Munich, Inst Soziol, Konradstr 6, D-80801
Munich,
Germany.
Univ Munich, Inst Soziol, D-80801 Munich, Germany.
Univ Vienna, Klin Tiefenpsychol & Psychotherapie Wien, A-1090 Vienna,
Austria.

KeywordsPlus:  INFORMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; INDICATORS;
AMBIGUITY

Abstract:  This paper reports early steps in research that seeks to
clarify how publications of scientists interact dynamically with citations
and reputation in shaping the evolution of scientific fields. We assume
that Lotka's modified law holds for scientific fields. A primary approach
to model publication productivity was published by Yablonsky. In contrast
to Yablonsky's unfinished mathematical approach, our simulation approach
is not predominantly driven by insight into the formal generation
mechanisms of certain processes but more theory driven. It considers the
evolution of publication and citation distributions over the histories of
scientific fields using both simulated and real historical data.

Source item page count:  21
Publication Date:  FEB
IDS No.:  171UM
29-char source abbrev:  SCIENTOMETRICS

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