Lotka's Law and Map Librarianship

Alan Edward Schorr

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975, vol. 26, issue 3, 189-190

Abstract: Lotka's Law states that given the number of authors who have written one article, the number writing multiple articles can be predicted. Though Lotka's Law was based on a study of the chemistry and physics literature, interest has recently developed as to its possible application to the humanities. A test of this general law for the field of map librarianship is discussed, illustrating that Lotka's Law is valid for this discipline.

Date: 1975
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