Document (#40699)

Author

Bensman, S.J.
Smolinsky, L.J.

Title

Lotka's inverse square law of scientific productivity : its methods and statistics

Source

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 68(2017) no.7, S.1786-1791

Year

2017

Series

Brief communication

Abstract

This brief communication analyzes the statistics and methods Lotka used to derive his inverse square law of scientific productivity from the standpoint of modern theory. It finds that he violated the norms of this theory by extremely truncating his data on the right. It also proves that Lotka himself played an important role in establishing the commonly used method of identifying power-law behavior by the R2 fit to a regression line on a log-log plot that modern theory considers unreliable by basing the derivation of his law on this very method.

Content

Vgl.: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23785/full.

Theme

Informetrie

Object

Lotka-Gesetz

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