Frequency distributions of scientific performance a bibliography of Lotka's law and related phenomena

A bibliometric analysis of productivity patterns of biomedical authors of Nigeria during 1967-2002

“…[6][7][8][9][10][11] In this article, we wish to test the applicability of this law to the productivity of the various author categories of the biomedical literature of Nigeria. Nigerian biomedical literature here includes any biomedical publication that focused on Nigeria during 1967-2002 irrespective of the geographical or other characteristics of the source or origin of the publications, or the authors.…”

Research trends analysis by comparing data mining and customer relationship management through bibliometric methodology

“…Lotka's law is generally used for understanding the productivity patterns of authors in a bibliography (Gupta 1987;Nicholls 1989;Coille 1977;Vlachy 1978;Rao 1980;Pao 1985). In this article, Lotka's law is chosen to perform bibliometric analysis to check the number of publications versus accumulated authors between 1989 and 2009 to perform an author productivity inspection to collect the results for research tendency in the near future.…”

Bibliometric Research: History [ELIS Classic]

“…[94] In the judgment of the authors: 1) Lotka's law, in its generalized form, seems applicable when we consider the publications of authors in one periodical and 2) when we consider all the publications of the authors in various journals, the observed values deviate considerably from the predictions of the law. [96] The compilation "Frequency Distributions of Scientific Performance: A Bibliography of Lotka's Law and Related Phenomena," by Jan Vlachy, [97] although not a substantive work, is included here because of its excellence. [94] They suggested further testing the law using "the service tapes such as Engineering Index, INSPEC, etc."…”