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The reflection of LOTKA's law in the structure of citations of a journal

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A complex structure measure for social groups was applied to the structure of citations in a journal. The citation structure reflected LOTKA's law on the various levels of group structure measure. On the first structure level the reciprocal effect of social and cognitive factors became discernible. The different hierarchical levels of the structure measure were a reflection of the logarithm of number of publications per author obtained in a group of authors with a definite number of publications.

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  1. Institute of Theory, History and Organisation of Science, Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic, Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152, 1100, Berlin, GDR

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Kretschmer, H. The reflection of LOTKA's law in the structure of citations of a journal. Scientometrics 5, 85–92 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02072855

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