“…According to Dorothy H. Hertzel (, table 2 p. 559), the first seminal papers in bibliometrics started with statistical studies by Cole and Eales in 1917 and Hulme and Wyndham in 1922. William Hood and Concepción Wilson ( p. 295) point out that the next step, “the discovery of certain regularities, distributions or laws,” was of fundamental importance to the development of the fields of bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics.…”