Power laws in the information production process : Lotkaian informetrics / Leo Egghe.
"This book describes informetric results from the point of view of Lotkaian size-frequency functions, i.e. functions that are decreasing power laws. Explanations and examples of this model are given showing that it is the most important regularity amongst other possible models. This theory is t...
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Library and information science (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. I. Lotkaian informetrics : an introduction
- Ch. II. Basic theory of Lotkaian informetrics
- Ch. III. Three-dimensional Lotkaian informetrics
- Ch. IV. Lotkaian concentration theory
- Ch. V. Lotkaian fractal complexity theory
- Ch. VI. Lotkaian informetrics of systems in which items can have multiple sources
- Ch. VII. Further applications in Lotkaian informetrics.