Patterns of Productivity in the Finance Literature: A Study of the Bibliometric Distributions
研究发现金融文献中发表n篇论文的作者数量约为发表1篇论文作者数量的1/n²，顶级期刊的作者集中度更高，表明“成功孕育成功”在高质量期刊中更常见。
ABSTRACT This study finds a bibliometric regularity in the finance literature that the number of authors publishing n papers is about of those publishing one paper. We find that the finance literature conforms very well to the inverse square law if data are taken from a large collection of journals. When applied to individual finance journals, we find that values of c range from 1.95 to 3.26. We also find that top‐rated journals have higher concentrations among their contributors. This implies that the phenomenon “success breeds success” is more common in higher quality publications.