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The Success-Breeds-Success Phenomenon and Bibliometric Processes.

Authors :
Tague, Jean
Source :
Journal of the American Society for Information Science; Jul1981, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p280-286, 7p
Publication Year :
1981

Abstract

Success-breeds-success phenomenon is described by single- and multiple-urn models. It is shown that these models lead to a negative binomial distribution for the total number of successes and a Zipf-Mandelbrot law for the number of sources contributing a specified number of successes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
BIBLIOMETRICS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL citations
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INFORMATION science
LIBRARY statistics
WORD frequency
ZIPF'S law

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Language :
English
ISSN :
00028231
Volume :
32
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
18727716
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630320408
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