Black-Scholes-Schrödinger-Zipf-Mandelbrot model framework for improving a study of the coauthor core score

The data and findings by Miskiewicz (2013) on the relationship between the number (J) of publications ranked according to their decreasing importance, for some scientist with her/his coauthors (CA), i.e. J α 1/r α, as found in Ausloos (2013), when specific types of publications, i.e. proceedings (in a generalized sense) and peer-review journals, are considered, are reexamined along the Zipf-Mandelbrot law Mandelbrot (1977), i.e. J α 1/(ν+r)ζ. The statistics are much improved. The exponent α and ζ are compared. The m a core value, i.e. the core number of CAs [1] is unaffected, of course. A Black-Scholes-Schrödinger model framework is proposed to describe the findings. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.