The success‐breeds‐success phenomenon and bibliometric processes

Jean Tague

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981, vol. 32, issue 4, 280-286

Abstract: Success‐breeds‐success phenomenon is described by single‐and multiple‐urn models. It is shown that these models lead to a negative binomial distribution for the total number of successes and a Zipf‐Mandelbrot law for the number of sources contributing a specified number of successes.

Date: 1981
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