Lack of standardisation in informetric research. Comments on “Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics” by Matthias Sutter and Martin G. Kocher

Ronald Rousseau ()
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Scientometrics, 2002, vol. 55, issue 2, No 9, 317-327

Abstract: Abstract Lack of standard procedures hinders progress in scientometric and bibliometric research. Provoked by a recent publication in the journal Scientometrics, we consider in particular the problem of how to handle - in a standardised way - data that, by and large, follow a Lotka, Zipf or Mandelbrot distribution

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1019675909829

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