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Popescu, Ioan-Iovitz

On a Zipf's Law extension to impact factors

The Lavalette's law is further promoted with empirical arguments from its original area of impact factors of scientific journals. Alike its famous precursory Zipf's and Mandelbrot's rank-frequency laws, the Lavalette's law offers the promise of various applications also beyond its original meaning. Thus, an alternate reduced rank-frequency distribution is introduced by assigning equal ranks to the words with the same frequency. Also the fractal behavior of self-similarity of actual rank-frequency curves belonging to different scales is revealed.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 6, 03/2003
Pages: 83-93

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