Lotka’s Law and productivity patterns of authors in biomedical science in Nigeria on HIV/AIDS

Ifeanyi Adigwe

9 citations0/0 files storedThe Electronic Library

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

scientometrics and bibliometrics research Library Science and Information Psychology Research and Bibliometrics

Abstract

Purpose This study aims to analyze the productivity patterns of authors in Nigeria using publications indexed in Medline from 2008 to 2012 based on Lotka's Law. Lotka's Law of scientific productivity provides a platform for studying inequality in authors' productivity patterns in a given field and over a specified period.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 9 citations exist upstream.

References

1926The frequency distribution of scientific productivity 2006Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 1992The skewness of science 1985Lotka's law: A testing procedure 2007Africa’s contribution to the worldwide research literature: New analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators 2007Modeling the probability distribution of positional errors incurred by residential address geocoding.1977Lotka's frequency distribution of scientific productivity 1990Patterns of Productivity in the Finance Literature: A Study of the Bibliometric Distributions

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.