• Title of article

    A theoretical approach to the unification of informetric models by wave-heat equations

  • Author/Authors

    Fred Y. Ye ، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    1208
  • To page
    1211
  • Abstract
    A simple distribution function f(x, t)=p(x+q)−βeαt obeys wave and heat equations, that constructs a theoretical approach to the unification of informetric models, with which we can unify all informetric laws. While its space-type distributions deduce naturally Lotka-type laws in size approaches and Zipf-type laws in rank approaches, its time-type distributions introduce the mechanism of Price-type and Brookes-type laws.
  • Journal title
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Serial Year
    2011
  • Journal title
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Record number

    994457