Journal of the American Society for Information Science, volume 37, issue 5, pages 307-314

A relationship between Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, and Zipf's Law

Ye-Sho Chen ¹

FERDINAND F. LEIMKUHLER ²

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Department of Quantitative Business Analysis, Louisiana State University, Baton, Rouge, LA 70803 |

School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University , West Lafayette , IN , 47907 |

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Publication date: 1986-09-01

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ISSN: 00028231, 10974571

DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198609)37:5<307::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-8

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A common functional relationship among Lotka's law, Bradford's law, and Zipf's law is derived. The proof takes explicit account of the sequences of observed values of the variables by means of an index. This approach results in a more realistic and precise formulation of each law. © 1986 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Chen Y., LEIMKUHLER F. F. A relationship between Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, and Zipf's Law // Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 1986. Vol. 37. No. 5. pp. 307-314.

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Chen Y., LEIMKUHLER F. F. A relationship between Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, and Zipf's Law // Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 1986. Vol. 37. No. 5. pp. 307-314.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198609)37:5<307::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-8

UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198609)37:5<307::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-8

TI - A relationship between Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, and Zipf's Law

T2 - Journal of the American Society for Information Science

AU - Chen, Ye-Sho

AU - LEIMKUHLER, FERDINAND F.

PY - 1986

DA - 1986/09/01

PB - Wiley

SP - 307-314

IS - 5

VL - 37

SN - 0002-8231

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@article{1986_Chen,

author = {Ye-Sho Chen and FERDINAND F. LEIMKUHLER},

title = {A relationship between Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, and Zipf's Law},

journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science},

year = {1986},

volume = {37},

publisher = {Wiley},

month = {sep},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198609)37:5<307::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-8},

number = {5},

pages = {307--314},

doi = {10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198609)37:5<307::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-8}

}

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Chen, Ye-Sho, and FERDINAND F. LEIMKUHLER. “A relationship between Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, and Zipf's Law.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 37, no. 5, Sep. 1986, pp. 307-314. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198609)37:5<307::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-8.

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