Zipf's Law and Writings on LIS

Sen, B. K., Keen, Khong Wye, Hoon, Lee Soo, Ling, Lim Bee, Abdullah, Mohd Rafae, Nguan, Ting Chang and Hiang, Wee Siu Zipf's Law and Writings on LIS. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 1998, vol. 3, n. 2, pp. 93-98. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Presents the results of a study conducted to find out the validity of Zipf’s law related to the word length and the frequency of its uses in the case of library and information science literature. The results obtained from the analysis of six different samples obey Zipf’s law in all the cases with small deviations. The result provided by the sample comprising about 5,800 words fits the law best with just one deviation. The main exception is found to be one-letter words.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Zipf's law; Library and Information Science literature; Bibliometrics
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information.
Depositing user: * Lalit Mohan
Date deposited: 17 Jan 2005
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:00
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/5824

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