Journal of Information Science
Price's square root law: empirical validity and relation to Lotka's law
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The duality of informetric systems with applications to the empirical laws
Journal of Information Science
Relations between continuous versions of bibliometric laws
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The duality of informatic systems with applications to the empirical laws
The duality of informatic systems with applications to the empirical laws
The Gini index and the Leimkuhler curve for bibliometric processes
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Informetrics
Literature growth and author productivity patterns in Indian physics
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Construction of concentration measures for General Lorenz curves using Riemann-Stieltjes integrals
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Infometrics
Properties of the n-overlap vector and n-overlap similarity theory: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
On Egghe's construction of Lorenz curves: Brief Communication
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Extending Lotkaian informetrics
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Explicit expressions for the Leimkuhler curve in parametric families
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Infometrics
The theorem of Fellman and Jakobsson: A new proof and dual theory
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
The dependence of the height of a Lorenz curve of a Zipf function on the size of the system
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
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In this article concentration (i.e., inequality) aspects of the functions of Zipf and of Lotka are studied. Since both functions are power laws (i.e., they are mathematically the same) it suffices to develop one concentration theory for power laws and apply it twice for the different interpretations of the laws of Zipf and Lotka. After a brief repetition of the functional relationships between Zipf's law and Lotka's law, we prove that Price's law of concentration is equivalent with Zipf's law. A major part of this article is devoted to the development of continuous concentration theory, based on Lorenz curves. The Lorenz curve for power functions is calculated and, based on this, some important concentration measures such as the ones of Gini, Theil, and the variation coefficient. Using Lorenz curves, it is shown that the concentration of a power law increases with its exponent and this result is interpreted in terms of the functions of Zipf and Lotka. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.