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Peer reviewedNicholls, Paul Travis – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Presents Price's law, which states that half of the literature on a subject will be contributed by the square root of total number of authors publishing in that area, and assesses it against empirical evidence and simulated productivity distributions. The discussion covers this law's relation to Lotka's law and its empirical validity. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Hypothesis Testing, Mathematical Models, Proof (Mathematics)
