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Applicability of Lotka’s Law in Parasitology research output of India

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This paper examines the conformity of Lotka’s law to authorship distribution in the field of parasitologyusing Scopus during 2007-2016. Totally, 5792 articles produced by 3473 unique first authors, wascompiled for analysis. Lotka’s law was tested using both generalized and modified forms by using theformula: x y c n = , the values of the exponent n and the constant c were computed; and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) and Chi-square tests were applied. The results showed that the Lot ka’s law f it t o t heauthor productivity distribution pattern in parasitology literature.
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hal-02292923 , version 1 (20-09-2019)

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K.T. Naheem, P. Sivaraman, Govindaraj Saravanan. Applicability of Lotka’s Law in Parasitology research output of India. Library Philosophy and Practice, 2019, pp.2958. ⟨hal-02292923⟩
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