Reed WJ "The Pareto, Zipf and other power laws" ECONOMICS LETTERS 74 (1): 15-19 DEC 20 2001

[Loet Leydesdorff]

> >         y=ax**b (power)

Derek J. de Solla Price, Networks of Scientific Papers, Science, Vol. 149,
30 July 1965, pp. 510-5, at p. 511:

"For large n, the number of papers cited appears to decrease as n^2.5 or
n^2.6."

With kind regards,


Loet


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