LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE LITERATURE AND LOTKA’ S LAW

Main Article Content

Bimal Kanti Sen
Che Azlan Taib
Mohd Faris Hassan
B. K. Sen
Che Azlan bin Taib
Mohd Faris Hassan

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.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
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 https://malindojournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJLIS/article/view/1701
Section
Articles