Measures of greatness: A Lotkaian approach to literary authors using OCLC WorldCat
A Friedman, JH Bernstein - Library & Information Science Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This study examines the productivity, eminence, and impact of literary authors using Lotka's
law, a bibliometric approach developed for studying the published output of scientists. Data
on literary authors were drawn from two recent surveys that identified and ranked authors
who had made the greatest contributions to world literature. Data on the number of records
of works by and about selected authors were drawn from OCLC WorldCat in 2007 and 2014.
Findings show that the distribution of literary authors followed a pattern consistent with …
law, a bibliometric approach developed for studying the published output of scientists. Data
on literary authors were drawn from two recent surveys that identified and ranked authors
who had made the greatest contributions to world literature. Data on the number of records
of works by and about selected authors were drawn from OCLC WorldCat in 2007 and 2014.
Findings show that the distribution of literary authors followed a pattern consistent with …
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