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Facebook Posts and Lotka's Law


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1 Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore - 570 006, Karnataka, India
2 MLISc, Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysuru - 570 006, Karnataka, India
3 Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIM), Mysore - 570011, Karnataka, India
4 Government First Grade College, Periyapatna, Mysuru - 571107, Karnataka, India
     

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Facebook is an online social networking site. It allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. It is a very popular social networking site. Librarians use it for official and personal communication purpose. The present study examines the participation of librarians in Facebook by testing whether it follows the pattern given by Lotka's law. The result shows that it does not. The paper analyses the reasons and also provides the methods of collecting data for bibliometric study.

Keywords

Lotka's Law, Bibliometrics, Facebook, FB Posts.
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About The Authors

N. S. Harinarayana
Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore - 570 006, Karnataka
India

Anjum Kousar
MLISc, Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysuru - 570 006, Karnataka
India

M. V. Sunil
Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIM), Mysore - 570011, Karnataka
India

N. Vasantha Raju
Government First Grade College, Periyapatna, Mysuru - 571107, Karnataka
India


Notifications

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  • Lotka, Alfred J. (1926). The frequency distribution of sci­entific productivity. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 16(12): 317-324.

  • Pao, M. L. (1985). Lotka’s law: a testing procedure. Informa­tion Processing and Management. 21(4): 305-320.

  • Rousseau, B. & Rousseau, R. (2000). LOTKA: A program to fit a power law distribution to observed frequency data. Cybermetrics. 4(1): 1-6.

  • Sen, B. K. (2010). Lotka’s Law: a viewpoint. Annals of Li­brary and Information Studies. 57(2): 166-167.


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Authors

N. S. Harinarayana
Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore - 570 006, Karnataka, India
Anjum Kousar
MLISc, Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysuru - 570 006, Karnataka, India
M. V. Sunil
Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIM), Mysore - 570011, Karnataka, India
N. Vasantha Raju
Government First Grade College, Periyapatna, Mysuru - 571107, Karnataka, India

Abstract


Facebook is an online social networking site. It allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. It is a very popular social networking site. Librarians use it for official and personal communication purpose. The present study examines the participation of librarians in Facebook by testing whether it follows the pattern given by Lotka's law. The result shows that it does not. The paper analyses the reasons and also provides the methods of collecting data for bibliometric study.

Keywords


Lotka's Law, Bibliometrics, Facebook, FB Posts.

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