1. [Law-making "pioneers" of scientometrics].
- Author
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Schubert A and Schubert G
- Subjects
- Europe, History, 20th Century, Humans, Models, Statistical, Periodicals as Topic history, United States, Authorship history, Bibliometrics history, Chemistry history, Efficiency, Library Science history, Linguistics history, Publishing history
- Abstract
The three much cited laws of scientometrics are the laws of Bradford, Lotka and Zipf. The authors briefly review the scientific career of the men behind the names, and that how they discovered the laws named after them. An outline is also given of the scientific aftermath of the laws and of the oeuvre of their eponym.
- Published
- 2016
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