Open Source Software Development and Lotka's Law: Bibliometric Patterns in Programming.

Newby, Gregory B.; Greenberg, Jane; Jones, Paul

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ERIC Number: EJ671848

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Publication Date: 2003

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Open Source Software Development and Lotka's Law: Bibliometric Patterns in Programming.

Newby, Gregory B.; Greenberg, Jane; Jones, Paul

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v54 n2 p169-78 Jan 15 2003

Applies Lotka's Law to metadata on open source software development. Authoring patterns found in software development productivity are found to be comparable to prior studies of Lotka's Law for scientific and scholarly publishing, and offer promise in predicting aggregate behavior of open source developers. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Computer Software Development, Metadata, Productivity, Scientific and Technical Information, Tables (Data)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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