220 THE LIBRARY QUARTERLY Introduction to Informetrics: Quantitative Methods in
Library, Documentation and mation Science. By Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau …

Discussion in the research community and among the general public regarding content
indexing (especially subject indexing) and access to digital resources, especially on the …

This book provides an accessible introduction to the history, theory and techniques of
informetrics. Divided into 14 chapters, it develops the content system of informetrics from the …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its many applications are changing our lives in ways we could
not have imagined a decade ago. Generative artificial intelligence is an artificial intelligence …

Many commercial database management systems maintain histograms to summarize the
contents of relations in order to perform efficient estimation of query result sizes and access …

The bibliometric laws of Zipf, Bradford, and Lotka, in their various mathematical expressions,
frequently present difficulties in the fitting of empirical values. The empirical flaws of fit take …

This study examines how informetric characteristics of information retrieval (IR) system
databases can be used to help the systems designer decide what types of file structures …

Many different theoretical models can be made to fit empirical informetric data. For the case
of the distribution of papers across authors, the Success‐Breeds‐Success or Cumulative …

A probabilistic mechanism is proposed to describe various forms of the Bradford
phenomenon reported in bibliometric research. This leads to a stochastic process termed …

Extensive literatures exist on information searching theory and techniques, as well as on the
Bradford Distribution. This distribution, also known as" Bradford's Law of Scattering," tells us …