{"title":"Lotka's Law and Computer Science Literature","authors":"T. Radhakrishnan, R. Kernizan","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300109","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An experiment to verify the satisfaction of Lotka's law, with the papers published in the area of computer science, is reported. It is seen that the estimates of this law deviate considerably from the observations. Need for further experiments to verify Lotka's law in the area of applied sciences and engineering is emphasized.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"21 2 1","pages":"51-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"61","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300109","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An experiment to verify the satisfaction of Lotka's law, with the papers published in the area of computer science, is reported. It is seen that the estimates of this law deviate considerably from the observations. Need for further experiments to verify Lotka's law in the area of applied sciences and engineering is emphasized.