Lotka's law coefficient estimation
It estimates Lotka's law coefficients for scientific productivity (Lotka A.J., 1926).
lotka(results)
results |
is an object of the class ' |
Reference:
Lotka, A. J. (1926). The frequency distribution of scientific productivity. Journal of the Washington academy of sciences, 16(12), 317-323.
The function lotka returns a list of summary statistics of the Lotka's law estimation of an object of class bibliometrix.
the list contains the following objects:
Beta |
Beta coefficient | |
C |
Constant coefficient | |
R2 |
Goodness of Fit | |
fitted |
Fitted Values | |
p.value |
Pvalue of two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test between the empirical and the theorical Lotka's Law distribution (with Beta=2) | |
AuthorProd |
Authors' Productivity frequency table |
biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis
summary method for class 'bibliometrix'
data(scientometrics, package = "bibliometrixData") results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics) L=lotka(results) L
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