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bibliometrix (version 4.3.5)

lotka: Lotka's law coefficient estimation

Description

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

Usage

lotka(M)

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:

BetaBeta coefficient
CConstant coefficient
R2Goodness of Fit
fittedFitted Values
p.valuePvalue of two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test between the empirical and the theoretical Lotka's Law distribution (with Beta=2)
AuthorProdAuthors' Productivity frequency table
gLotka's law plot
g_shinyLotka's law plot for biblioshiny

Arguments

M

is an object of the class 'bibliometrixDB'.

Details

Reference: Lotka, A. J. (1926). The frequency distribution of scientific productivity. Journal of the Washington academy of sciences, 16(12), 317-323.

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis

summary method for class 'bibliometrix'

Examples

Run this code
data(management, package = "bibliometrixData")
L <- lotka(management)
L

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