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Transition from the macrolevel to the microlevel of information at rank distribution investigations of the report literature of an international information system

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The coincidence method proposed earlier by one of the authors is applied to rank distribution studies of the report literature of the International Nuclear Information System, INIS, and a two-level concept is used to discuss the results of the present and previously reported investigations. Transitions between macrolevel and microlevel of information for constant forms of communication as well as transitions between different forms of communication at constant levels are compared. Escape of the information avalanche for the highly specialized single scientist, greater efficiency of the report literature compared with journal literature in the field of nuclear research, non-compatibility of macrolevel and microlevel of information could be confirmed quantitatively. It is an open question how to transform microlevel distributions into macrolevel distributions.

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  1. Central Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, P.O.B. 19, 8051, Dresden/GDR, (GDR)

    M. Bonitz & P. Schmidt

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Bonitz, M., Schmidt, P. Transition from the macrolevel to the microlevel of information at rank distribution investigations of the report literature of an international information system. Scientometrics 4, 283–295 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02021644

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