Two-step competition process leads to quasi power-law income distributions: Application to scientific publication and citation distributions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 530-536

  Van Raan, A F J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; COMPETITION; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

POWER-LAW INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 0035885133     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00254-0     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Power law relations in science bibliography: A self-consistent interpretation
2. The skewness of science
3. Competition amongst scientists for publication status. Toward a model of scientific publication and citation distributions
4. Advanced bibliometric methods as quantitative core of peer review based evaluation and foresight exercises