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Price's law

Price's law proper noun: a description of the relationship between the academic literature on a subject and the number of authors in the subject area, stating that half of the publications come from the square root of all contributors.

Proper noun

Price's law

  1. A description of the relationship between the academic literature on a subject and the number of authors in the subject area, stating that half of the publications come from the square root of all contributors.

Origin of Price's law

Introduced by Derek J. de Solla Price.

Questions about Price's law

What does Price's law mean?
Price's law means a description of the relationship between the academic literature on a subject and the number of authors in the subject area, stating that half of the publications come from the square root of all contributors.
What part of speech is Price's law?
Price's law is a proper noun.

Words near Price's law in the dictionary

  1. price up
  2. price war
  3. price wars
  4. Price's equation
  5. Price's groundnut
  6. Price's law
  7. Price's potato-bean
  8. Price's theorem
  9. price-cap
  10. price-capped
  11. price-capping

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