bibliometrix (version 0.3)

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: lll{ 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) AuthorProd Authors' Productivity frequency table}

See Also

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis summary method for class 'bibliometrix'

Examples

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