Lotka's law for the Brazilian scientific output published in journals

被引：8

作者：

Da Silva, Sergio ^{[1
]}

Perlin, Marcelo ^{[2
]}

Matsushita, Raul ^{[3
]}

Santos, Andre A. P. ^{[1
]}

Imasato, Takeyoshi ^{[2
]}

Borenstein, Denis ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Fed Santa Catarina, Grad Program Econ, BR-88049970 Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

[2] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Sch Business Adm, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

[3] Univ Brasilia, Dept Stat, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

来源：

JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE | 2019年 / 45卷 / 05期

关键词：

Lotka's law; Pareto exponent; power law; scientific productivity; scientometrics;

D O I：

10.1177/0165551518801813

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Lotka's law is a power law for the frequency of scholarly publications. We show that Lotka's law cannot be dismissed after considering a massive sample of the number of publications of Brazilian researchers in journals listed on the SCImago Journal Rank and the Journal Citation Reports. For the SCImago Journal Rank, we found a power law with the Pareto exponent of 0.4 beyond the threshold of 50 papers. This means computing the 'average number of publications' of either a researcher or a discipline is of no practical significance.

引用

页码：705 / 709

页数：5

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