Applying Egghe's general theory of the evolution of information production processes to the world wide web

Proceedings of ISSI 2007 - 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 231-240

  Cothey, Viv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Lotka; Scale factor; World wide web

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EVOLUTION; INFORMATION PRODUCTION; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; LOTKA; LOTKAIAN INFORMETRICS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SCALE FACTOR; SIZE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 73249127477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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