bibliometrix (version 1.4)

lotka: Lotka's law coefficient estimation

Description

It estimates Lotka's law coefficients for scientific productivity (Lotka A.J., 1926)

Usage

lotka(results)

Arguments

results

is an object of the class 'bibliometrix' for which the analysis of the authors' dominance ranking is desired.

Value

The function lotka returns a list of summary statistics of the Lotka's law estimation of an object of class bibliometrix.the list contains the following objects:

Beta
Beta coefficient	C
	Constant coefficient
R2
Goodness of Fit	fitted
	Fitted Values
p.value
Pvalue of two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test between the empirical and the theorical Lotka's Law distribution (with Beta=2)	Beta

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'

Examples

data(scientometrics)
results <- biblioAnalysis(scientometrics)
L=lotka(results)
L