COHERENT INFORMATIONAL ENERGY AND ENTROPY

Aiming to provide a common theoretical foundation for all known biblio‐metric laws, the author starts from a systemic view of the information transfer process and assimilates it with a physical diffusion process, in particular the conduction of heat in solids. Previous literature induces in the properly ranked space of new authors an interest potential (temperature) confirmed by exchange of reference‐citation pairs, and driving a controlled information flow. The model gives its distribution for given initial and borderline conditions, allowing at the same time the establishment of new definitions for informational energy and entropy, which are coherent with the corresponding physical ones. The theory shows that impulsory energy supply is bound to negative entropy inflow which brakes the normal entropy ‘production’ in the ‘dissipative’ structures of the considered system. In this way the introduction of information into concrete thermodynamic systems analysis can hopefully be expected.