Activity Index and Lotkas's Law Validation on Human DNA Research

Abstract

The chapter analyzes the activity index and Lotka's law validation on human DNA research during 1989-2013. This present study uses Scopus database to find publications of ‘Human DNA'. The study showed that the lowest relative growth rate (RGR) was 0.04 in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. Similarly, the RGR rose to 0.75 in 1990, and the average mean value of RGR was 0.15. The total no. of authors was (an) = 82886 for 42 publications that each author contributed in the human DNA research. The authors reported that the percentage that authors predicted by Lotka's authors (F-P)2/P = 1526.66.