Lotka's law reconsidered: The evolution of publication and citation distributions in scientific fields

The Matthew Effect in Science

Robert Κ. Merton · Science · 1968 · 6.3K citations

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Robert Κ. Merton · PubMed · 1968 · 4.9K citations

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A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes

Derek de Solla Price · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1976 · 2.1K citations

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Skew Distributions and the Size of Business Firms.

D. G. Champernowne, Yuji Ijiri, Herbert A. Simon · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) · 1977 · 475 citations

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