Document (#37527)

Author

Egghe, L.

Title

Theory of the topical coverage of multiple databases

Source

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 64(2013) no.1, S.126-131

Year

2013

Abstract

We present a model that describes which fraction of the literature on a certain topic we will find when we use n (n = 1, 2, .) databases. It is a generalization of the theory of discovering usability problems. We prove that, in all practical cases, this fraction is a concave function of n, the number of used databases, thereby explaining some graphs that exist in the literature. We also study limiting features of this fraction for n very high and we characterize the case that we find all literature on a certain topic for n high enough.

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