Abstract
This article describes the original Zipf’s Law, which is one of the three basic laws of bibliometrics. The Zipf’s Law explores the relationship between words and their frequency of occurrence in text. In addition, the following issues of the Zipf’s Law are also discussed: (1) Analysis and modification of the Zipf’s Law itself; (2) Comparison with Bradford’s Law, and (3) Applications and problems of the Law.
| Keywords: | Zipf’s law; Bradford-Zipf law; Core journals; Cumulative advantage distribution; Automatic indexing |
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