Empirical hyperbolic distributions (Bradford-Zipf-Mandelbrot) for bibliometric description and prediction

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-193

  Fairthorne, Robert A ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Library management; Mathematical modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844400843     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410510585179     Document Type: Review

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