Critical Truths About Power LawsMichael P. H. Stumpf, Mason Alexander Porter2012-02-09editorialScience633 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Complex Systems and Time Series Analysisscientometrics and bibliometrics researchComplex Network Analysis TechniquesAbstractMost reported power laws lack statistical support and mechanistic backing.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 633 citations exist upstream.References2009Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data2018Power-law distributions in empirical data1972More Is Different: Broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science.2010A unified theory of urban livingCited by2014Constructing cities, deconstructing scaling laws2013Returning to the Frontier of Contingency Theory of Organizational and Institutional Designs2013Limit order books2014Power-law distributions in binned empirical data2014Finding the core: Network structure in interbank markets2014Field experiments of success-breeds-success dynamics2016Microfoundations in international relations2018Entrepreneurial cognition and the quality of new venture ideas: An experimental approach to comparing future-oriented cognitive processes