Open source software development and Lotka's Law: Bibliometric patterns in programming

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 169-178

  Newby, Gregory B ^a   Greenberg, Jane ^a   Jones, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLISHING;

BIBLIOMETRIC PATTERNS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037232558     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10177     Document Type: Article

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