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Author productivity and the application of Lotka’s Law in LIS publications

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Title Statement Author productivity and the application of Lotka’s Law in LIS publications
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name P K, Suresh Kumar; Assistant Librarian Kerala University Library Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram-34
 
Uncontrolled Index Term Information Science, Scientometrics
Lotka’s Law; Kolmogorov-Smirnov; Authorship pattern; Infometrics
 
Summary, etc. <p class="Abst"><span lang="EN-GB">The paper examines authorship pattern of 556 papers published in <em>Journal of Documentation</em> during 2003 to 2015. In addition to the papers, a sample of 1550 references from a population of 15,529 unique references given at the end of the papers was selected using simple random sample method. It was found that almost half of the publications were written by single authors. Lotka’s Law was tested on the resulting 2106 publications using Kolmogorov-Smrinov goodness-of-fit. The K-S test and the author productivity graph revealed that Lotka’s law was applicable to the set LIS publications.</span></p><p> </p> <p><strong> </strong></p>
 
Publication, Distribution, Etc. Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS)
2018-01-12 07:46:32
 
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http://op.niscair.res.in/index.php/ALIS/article/view/15624
 
Data Source Entry Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS); ##issue.vol## 64, ##issue.no## 4 (2017): Annals of Library and Information Studies
 
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