A bibliometric system which really works
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Generalized success-breeds-success principle leading to time-dependent informetric distributions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Informetric distributions. III. ambiguity and randomness
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Cumulative advantage and success-breeds-success: the value of time pattern analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: knowledge discovery and data mining
The underlying process generating Lotka's law and the statistics of exceedances
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A new method for analyzing scientific productivity
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Productivity in the Internet mailing lists: A bibliometric analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
An analysis of computer science education publication using Lotka's law
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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In this paper, we develop a new model for a process that generates Lotka's Law. We show that four relatively mild assumptions create a process that fits five different informetric distributions: rate of production, career duration, randomness, and Poisson distribution over time, as well as Lotka's Law. By simulation, we obtain good fits to three empirical samples that exhibit the extreme range of the observed parameters. The overall error is 7% or less. An advantage of this model is that the parameters can be linked to observable human factors. That is, the model is not merely descriptive, but also provides insight into the causes of differences between samples. Furthermore, the differences can be tested with powerful statistical tools.