The power of power laws and an interpretation of Lotkaian informetric systems as self-similar fractals

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 669-675

  Egghe, L ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; INTERNET; SET THEORY; WEBSITES;

LOTKAIAN INFORMETRIC SYSTEMS; NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES; POWER FUNCTIONS; POWER LAWS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 19944402949     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20158     Document Type: Article

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