There's a basic problem with this: Price's law doesn't fit the data. (DOI 10.1016/0306-4573(88)90049-0) It certainly shouldn't be randomly reapplied to things

There's a basic problem with this: Price's law doesn't fit the data. (DOI 10.1016/0306-4573(88)90049-0) It certainly shouldn't be randomly reapplied to things besides scientific publication. Even within scientific publication, the uneven distribution of publications is a result of far more complicated mechanisms than some simple measure of results. Remember, by bibliometric methods, Newton, Feynman, and Perelman are some of the lowest performers ever to work in science.