Breakdown of the robustness property of Lotka's Law: The case of adjusted counts for multiauthorship attribution

Ronald Rousseau

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We show that fractional counting of authors does not lead to a Lotka distribution. Consequently, in this case, Bookstein's robustness property of Lotka's law breaks down. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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