Zipf's law and writings on LIS

• Main Authors: Sen, Bimal Kanti, Khong, Wye Keen, Lee, Soo Hoon, Lim, Bee Ling, Abdullah, Mohd Rafae, Ting, Chang Nguan, Wee, Siu Hiang
• Format: Article
• Published: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya 1998
• Subjects: Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/25679/; https://mjlis.um.edu.my/article/view/6652

Presents the results of a study conducted to find out the validity of Zipf's law related to the word length and the frequency of its uses in the case of library and information science literature. The results obtained from the analysis of six different samples obey Zipf's law in all the ca...