Lotka's Law and Library Science.

摘要: n contributions is -i?-of those making one. Though Lotka's study was clearly limited to scientific productivity (his article based on the chemistry and physics literature found in Chemical Abstracts Auerbachs Geschichtstafeln der Physik ), a recent of Technology Culture concluded that Law applicable field within humanities.2 As another tes general application Law, two library journals, Library Quarterly College & Research Libraries (1963-1972), were selected for this study. All articles tallied each journal data presented Tables 1 2. tables indicate, there marked similarity between results obtained from e ch journal. Instead authors with accounting 25 percent single author entries, they account only 4.6 In , three, four, five 3.1 percent, 1.0 .5 contributors, respectively. contributors entries comprise .25 articles, If valid science, percentages should have approximated 11.1 6.2 4.0 percent.