La teoría epidémica en la literatura sobre la Ley de Lotka

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to analyse the epidemic model as a deterministic process represented by a system of differential equations and apply it to authors producing literature on Lotka's law from 1922 to 2005. An epidemic process starting in 1965 and showing a high rate or transient authors is observed. Those authors publishing in languages different from English found the area already infected.