%0 Journal Article %T La productividad de los autores en la ciencia de la informaci¨®n colombiana %A Restrepo Arango %A Cristina %A Urbizag¨¢stegui Alvarado %A Rub¨¦n %J Ci¨ºncia da Informa£¿£¿o %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0100-19652010000300001 %X the scientific productivity of the authors who have published papers in four journals of library and information science from colombia since 1978 to 2009, was analyzed. a total of 555 authors were found; 422 (76%) of them published a single article and 78 (24%) published 2 or more articles. eleven authors were considered as the most productive with 21 and 7 articles respectively. the data was analyzed with the generalized inverse power, inverse generalized gauss poisson, and poisson lognormal models by the maximum likelihood method. the statistical chi-square and k-s tests showed that the three models fit the observed data. %K lotka's law %K poisson lognormal %K generalized inverse power %K generalized inverse gauss poisson %K bibliometrics %K cienciometrics %K infometrics. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-19652010000300001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en