Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ248943
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Publication Date: 1981-Jul
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The Success-Breeds-Success Phenomenon and Bibliometric Processes.
Tague, Jean
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v32 n4 p280-86 Jul 1981
Describes success-breeds-success phenomenon by single and multiple-urn models, and shows that these models lead to a negative binomial distribution for the total number of successes and to a Zipf-Mandelbrot law for the number of sources contributing a specified number of successes. Ten references are cited. (FM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citations (References), Mathematical Formulas, Models, Probability, Publications
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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