Two years ago a welcome was accorded to the arrival of Sichel's Inverse Gaussian-Poisson Distribution [2], with its predictive potentialities, on the bibliometrics scene, but with reservations about difficulties in applying it. Since that time developments have resolved those difficulties and these are briefly reported.
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