Lotka’s Law and Authorship distribution pattern in Global Synthetic Biology Literature

Authors

NAHEEM KT Mr, Pondicherry UniversityFollow
Sivaraman P Dr, Annamali UniversityFollow
Saravanan G Dr, French Institute of PondicherryFollow

Date of this Version

2020

Document Type

Article

Abstract

An attempt is made to examine the authorship distribution in Synthetic Biology (SB) literature and to validate Lotka's law of author productivity. Authors obtained data for this study from the WOS database. A total of 12012 papers with 33151 unique authors has identified , and used for further analysis. Authors calculated the exponents "n" and "c". Researchers employed Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test of goodness-of-fit to verify the validity of Lotka's Law in SB literature. The results of this study proved that Lotka's Law of author productivity does fit with SB literature based on the calculated values n = -2.45 and c= 0.74.