Power Laws in the Information Production Process
Subtitle: Lotkaian Informetrics (Library and Information Science)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: March 23, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780120887538
First sentence: The concept of informetrics is well-known nowadays and could be defined as the science dealing with the quantitative aspects of information.
Description: "This book describes informetric results from the point of view of Lotkaian size-frequency functions, i.e. functions that are decreasing power laws. Explanations and examples of this model are given showing that it is the most important regularity amongst other possible models. This theory is then developed in the framework of IPPs (Information Production Processes) hereby also indicating its relation with e.g. the law of Zipf."-- Book jacket.