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Year : 2018, Volume : 5, Issue : 1
First page : ( 17) Last page : ( 23)
Print ISSN : 2320-530X. Online ISSN : 0000-0000. Published online : 2018  1.

Scientometric analysis of global dengue research and applicability of Lotka's Law

Batcha M Sadik

Abstract

The present paper attempts to check the applicability of Lotka's Law on the global publication on Dengue. The study uses Lotka's empirical law of scientific productivity, i.e., Inverse Square Law, to measure the scientific productivity of authors, to test Exponent value and Chi-square for testing Lotka's Law. Lotka's law has been tested on the basis of authors with 10 or less articles individually. Calculations are also be made for more than 10 contributions but this was not required in this study to test the applicability of Lotka's law.

Mathematically

It is tested with chi-square Model.

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Keywords

Scientometrics, Lotka's Law, Lotka's Empirical Law, Dengue Research Output, Dengue Fever.

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