Lotka's law
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lotka-s-law-171-11799583
title:
Lotka's law
text:
Lotka's law, named after Alfred J. Lotka, is one of a variety of special applications of Zipf's law. It describes the frequency of publication by authors in any given field. Let X be the number of publications, Y be the number of authors with X publications, and k be a constants depending on the specific field. Lotka's law states that Y ∝ X − k. In Lotka's original publication, he claimed k = 2. Subsequent research showed that k varies depending on the discipline. Equivalently, Lotka's law can b
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An application of Zipf's law describing the frequency of publication by authors in any given field
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%27s_law
date created:
2004-12-22T20:10:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T16:47:40Z
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13
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