Breakdown of the robustness property of Lotka's Law: The case of adjusted counts for multiauthorship attribution

✍ Scribed by Rousseau, Ronald

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 285 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199212)43:10<645::aid-asi1>3.0.co;2-x

✦ Synopsis

We show that fractional counting of authors does not lead to a Lotka distribution. Consequently, in this case, Bookstein's robustness property of Lotka's law breaks down.