%0 Journal Article
%4 dpi.inpe.br/plutao/2013/05.31.17.22.52
%2 dpi.inpe.br/plutao/2013/05.31.17.22.53
%@doi 10.1007/s11192-013-1030-8
%@issn 0138-9130
%F lattes: 2994979403174851 1 AlvesYanaSoma:2013:CoJCSc
%T Benford-s Law and articles of scientific journals: comparison of JCR and Scopus data
%D 2014
%8 Jan.
%9 journal article
%A Alves, Alexandre Donizeti,
%A Yanasse, Horacio Hideki,
%A Soma, Nei Yoshihiro,
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Aeronautic Institute of Technology, ITA, Praça Marechal Eduardo Gomes, 50, Vila das Acácias, São José dos Campos-SP
%@electronicmailaddress alexdonizeti@gmail.com
%@electronicmailaddress horacio@lac.inpe.br
%B Scientometrics
%V 98
%N 1
%P 173-184
%K Benford's Law, articles, JCR, Scopus.
%X Benfords Law is a logarithmic probability distribution function used to predict the distribution of the first significant digits in numerical data. This paper presents the results of a study of the distribution of the first significant digits of the number of articles published of journals indexed in the JCR Sciences and Social Sciences Editions from 2007 to 2011. The data of these journals were also analyzed by the country of origin and the journals category. Results considering the number of articles published informed by Scopus are also presented. Comparing the results we observe that there is a significant difference in the data informed in the two databases.
%@language en
%3 yanasse.pdf