Use of Benford's law on academic publishing networks

Benford's law, also known as the first-digit has been widely used to test for anomalies in various data ranging from accounting fraud detection, stock prices, and house prices electricity bills, population numbers, death rates. Scientific collaboration graphs have studied extensively availability increased. Most research was oriented towards analysing patterns typologies of citation co-authorship graphs. countries group publications into categories an attempt objectively measure output. However, scientific community is complex heterogeneous. Additionally, fields may different publishing cultures, which make creating a unified metric evaluating output problematic. In systems like these, it important regularly observe potential examine them more carefully either improve evaluation model or find loopholes misuses. this paper, we application law on official database Slovenia. We provide evidence that metrics such number papers per researcher conform distribution, while authors paper does not. some reasoning behind them.