27, 292-306 (1976).

Continuing on an historical note, Zipf’s law was first proposed in: ⋆⋆ Zipf, G. K.

Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort (Addison-Wesley, Cambridge, MA, 1949).

And Herbert Simon first presented the idea of preferential, random growth as an explanation of power-law size distributions like Zipf’s law in: • Simon, H. A. On a class of skew distribution functions.

Biometrika,

42, 425-440 (1955).

The article was reprinted two decades later, along with a significant amount of subsequent and related work, in: • Ijiri, Y., and Simon, H. A.

Skew Distributions and the Sizes of Business Firms (Elsevier/North-Holland, New York, 1977).

Finally, the notion of the Matthew effect in the context of scientific prestige was introduced by Robert K. Merton in: ⋆ Merton, R. K. The Matthew effect in science.

Science,

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