Michael Goldhaber on Thu, 18 May 2000 12:37:09 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> OFSS01: First Orbiten Free Software Survey |
One thing about the study results that struck me is their genral simialrity in shape ofdistribution and authorship to a simlar analysis of publications in science. Most scinetists turn out to have only one publication in thier name; atiny percentage contribute very many. these statistics were first discussed avbout 40years ago by Derek J. DeSolla Price, included, I believe, in a book of his called Big Science, Little Science. It would be intersting to make a more detailed comparison. I suspect the factors leading to these distributions may acutally be similar in both fields. -- Best, Michael H. Goldhaber _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold