"Sitation" distributions and Bradford's law in a closed Web space

The study looks at how well the distribution of asitationso (inlinks received by Web spaces) ®ts either a power law (of the Lotka type) or a bibliometric distribution for printed publications (of the Bradford type). The experimental sample examines the sitations found in a closed generic environment of thematically-related Web sites ± the case of Extremadura (Spain). Two sets of data, varying several parameters, were used. The sitation distributions found were coherent with those described in previous experiments of this type, including in the exponent. The plots of accumulated clusters of sitations and targets, however, did not ®t the typical Bradford distribution.

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