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

被引：8
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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.
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页码：705 / 709
页数：5
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