caa a22 4500 44534914X CHVBK 20180317142838.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-010-0249-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-010-0249-x Mathematics 1868-2008: a bibliometric analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Heinrich Behrens, Peter Luksch] This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the literature published in the field of mathematics from 1868 to date. The data originate from the Zentralblatt MATH database. The increase rate of publications per year reflects the growth of the mathematics community and both can well be represented by exponential or linear functions, the latter especially after the Second World War. The distribution of publications follows Bradford′s law but in contrast to many other disciplines there is no strong domination of a small number of journals. The productivity of authors follows two inverse power laws of the Lotka form with different parameters, one in the range of low productivity and the other in the range of high productivity. The average productivity has changed only slightly since the year 1870. As far as multiple authorship is concerned the distribution of the number of authors per publication can be described quite well by a Gamma Distribution. The average number of authors per publication has been increasing steadily; while it was close to 1 up to the first quarter of the last century it has now reached a value of 2 in the last few years. This means that the percentage of single-authored papers has fallen from over 95% in the years before 1930 to about 30% today. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2010 Behrens Heinrich Kolbenäckerweg 12, 76144, Stutensee, Germany aut Luksch Peter FIZ Karlsruhe, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 86/1(2011-01-01), 179-194 0138-9130 86:1<179 2011 86 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0249-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0249-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Behrens Heinrich Kolbenäckerweg 12, 76144, Stutensee, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Luksch Peter FIZ Karlsruhe, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 86/1(2011-01-01), 179-194 0138-9130 86:1<179 2011 86 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer