[1] The law was intended to describe the uneven distribution of scientific output across researchers.
Subsequent research has largely contradicted Price's original hypothesis.
Multiple studies across various scientific disciplines have found that the actual distribution of publications is more skewed than Price's law predicted.
Most empirical analyses suggest that a much smaller proportion of researchers produce a significantly larger percentage of publications.
[3][4] Despite its empirical limitations, Price's law remains important in various fields,[5][6] for example to understand scientific productivity patterns, analyze or research output distributions, or highlight the concentration of scientific work among a small number of researchers