Physics 1800–1900: A quantitative outline

R. Wagner-Döbler and J. Berg
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R. Wagner-Döbler: Universität Augsburg
J. Berg: Universität Augsburg

Scientometrics, 1999, vol. 46, issue 2, No 1, 213-285

Abstract: Abstract The authors utilize the index of theCatalogue of Scientific Papers of theRoyal Society of London dealing with the physics journal literature of the 19th century. Graphs of the publication activity of the entire 19th-century physics and of a bout 50 of its most important subareas are displayed; both the number of active contributors in each area, the number of papers and its share of publications of the entire 19th century physics are exhibited. Typical scientometric regularities such as “Lotka’s law” (with regard to the number of papers and the number of areas treated by physicists) are confirmed. In addition, the shares of the leading countries of important physical discoveries in the 19th century are studied.

Date: 1999
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