Autism Causes Bibliometric Research

[Aparna Basu]

Dear Ronald,

If you recall we discussed my model of Bradford's law (JASIS '92) in
Sydney. There is a second paper on concentration that came out in JISSI, if
you happen to have a copy of that issue. Would you find time to think about
the model or fit it to data in the near future? I am curious to know how it
compares with other models of Bradford's Law. I was wondering if we could
work on this, to be in time for the Beijing conference?

Best regards
Aparna
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                    Ronald Rousseau
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                    05/01/02 06:47 PM
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                    Interest Group on
                    Metrics





The authors of the article mentioned by Sally Jo Cunningham have (among
other
things) serious difficulties in fitting Lotka's 'law' to the author list
they
provide.

Using my program, publicly available in the e-journal Cybermetrics gives
that,
for their data, the number of authors with y publications is
(statistically)
equal to 628.9 / y^(2.665), which seems to give an excellent fit to the
data.


Ronald Rousseau

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> I just spotted an article entitled "Autism Causes Bibliometric
> Research", at
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3959/3.htm
>
>
> Fortunately for all of us, it appears that a more accurate title
> would be, "Bibliometric research on the literature of the causes of
> autism".
>
> Cheers,
> Sally Jo Cunningham
> University of Waikato
> Private Bag 3105
> Hamilton, New Zealand
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Ronald Rousseau
dr. mathematics, dr. information science
KHBO - Industrial Sciences and Technology
Zeedijk 101    B-8400  Oostende   Belgium
Honorary Professor Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China)
E-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be
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