LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE LITERATURE AND LOTKA’ S LAW

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Lotka's law Library and information science literature Author productivity Bibliometrics

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Bimal Kanti Sen
Che Azlan Taib
Mohd Faris Hassan
B. K. Sen
MLIS Programme, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Che Azlan bin Taib
MLIS Programme, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mohd Faris Hassan
MLIS Programme, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract

Attempts to test the validity of Lotka’s law in the domain of library and information science(LIS) taking the annual name index of Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) 1992, and annual author index of LISA 1993 as the base, which included 7101 and 7591 abstracts of articles contributed respectively by 8284 and 7664 authors. Lotka’s law is found to be applicable with the value of n as 3.23 in the first case and 3.1 in the second case. It is concluded that the value of n is found to be higher in LIS compared to exact sciences because the number of authors contributing two or more articles are less in this field.

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Sen, B. K., Taib, C. A., Hassan, M. F., Sen, B. K., bin Taib, C. A., & Hassan, M. F. (2017). LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE LITERATURE AND LOTKA’ S LAW. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 1(2), 89–93. Retrieved from http://borneojournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJLIS/article/view/1701
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (1996): MJLIS, VOL. 1, NO. 2, 1996
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