1988
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4573(88)90049-0
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Price's square root law: Empirical validity and relation to Lotka's law

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“…Esses autores adotaram uma abordagem da forma ranking da frequência, mas Nicholls (1988) proporciona uma abordagem pelo tamanho-dafrequência, que corresponde, mais acuradamente, à representação da Lei de Lotka.…”
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“…Esses autores adotaram uma abordagem da forma ranking da frequência, mas Nicholls (1988) proporciona uma abordagem pelo tamanho-dafrequência, que corresponde, mais acuradamente, à representação da Lei de Lotka.…”
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“…Further, a generalization of Price's law would contend that 50% of organizational output is generated by the square root of the total number of employees in an organization. Although Price's law is known to be inaccurate (Nicholls, 1988), nevertheless, simple calculation using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System of the U.S. Department of Education, plus publication data from Nicholls (1988, p. 473), suggests that about 7.26% of employees in U.S. universities which awarded 4-year degrees in 2009, were responsible for 50% of published papers. Put simply, organizational wealth is created by a few, but distributed to many.…”
Section: Are G and The General Factor Of Personality (Gfp) Correlatedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Further discrete calculations on Lotka's law in the connection of Price's law can be found in Egghe (1987). Practical investigations on the validity of Price's law can be found in Berg and Wagner-Döbler (1996), Nicholls (1988), and Gupta, Sharma, and Kumar (1998).…”
Section: A Characterization Of Price's Law Of Concentrationmentioning
confidence: 99%