Nature

Bibliometric indicators: the origin of their log-normal distribution and why they are not a reliable proxy for an individual scholar’s talent

The rich get richer or success breeds success effect, also called Matthew’s principle from the parable of the Talents in Matthiew 25:14-30), has been invoked many times in the sociology of science to ...
JSTOR Daily

Optimal Thresholds for a Mixture of Lognormal Distributions as the Continuous Part of the Mixed Distribution

Vol. 33, No. 12, HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RAINFALL MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTABILITY (December 1994), pp. 1543-1550 (8 pages) The paper considers a mixture of two and three lognormal ...
Nature

The log-dynamic brain: how skewed distributions affect network operations

At many physiological and anatomical levels in the brain, the distribution of numerous parameters is strongly skewed with a heavy tail and typically follows a lognormal distribution. The power and ...