Empirical Examination of Lotka’s Law for Information Science and Library Science
Author
Maz-Machado, Alexander
Madrid, María José
Jiménez-Fanjul, Noelia
León-Mantero, Carmen
Publisher
University of the PunjabDate
2017Subject
Lotka’s lawBibliometrics
Information Science & Library Science
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The paper presents a bibliometric study on the fit of Lotka’s law on Information Science & Library Science journals indexed in Social Science Citation Index of Journal Citation Report from the period 1956 to 2014. The parameters of the Lotka's law model, C and α, were found using the linear least squares method and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied to estimate the kindness of adjustment of the results to the Lotka’s distribution. It was found that the pattern of publication of the LIS category articles fits to Lotka’s law.