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

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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. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Ronald Rousseau, 1992. "Breakdown of the robustness property of Lotka's Law: The case of adjusted counts for multiauthorship attribution," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 43(10), pages 645-647, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:43:y:1992:i:10:p:645-647
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199212)43:103.0.CO;2-X
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