Lotka's distribution and distribution of co-author pairs' frequencies

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 308-337

  Kretschmer, Hildrun ^a,b   Kretschmer, Theo ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b COLLNET Center ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Co authors; Collaboration; Gestalt theory; Lotka's distribution; Yin Yang teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848907982     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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