Bibliometric Studies of Scientific Productivity.

摘要

In 1926, Alfred J. Lotka examined the scientific publishing productivity of chemists. His bibliometric study of the number of chemists listed in Chemical Abstracts who had published one, two, three, etc. papers in a ten-year period was the first of many such studies. Lotka proposed an 'inverse square law' of scientific productivity in which the frequency of authors publishing x papers varied inversely as the square of x. Bibliometric research is underway to explore the applicability of other frequency distributions including Fisher's logarithmic series, Yule's Beta function and the Weibull distribution. (Author)