  The structure of the large scale distribution of the galaxies have been
widely studied since the publication of the first catalogs. Since large
redshift samples are available, their analyses seem to show fractal
correlations up to the observational limits. The value of the fractal
dimension(s) calculated by different authors have become the object of a large
debate, as have been the value of the expected transition from fractality to a
possible large scale homogeneity. Moreover, some authors have proposed that
different scaling regimes might be discerned at different lenght scales. To go
further on into this issue, we have applied the correlation integral method to
the wider sample currently available. We therefore obtain a fractal dimension
of the galaxy distribution which seems to vary by steps whose width might be
related to the organization hierarchy observed for the galaxies. This result
could explain some of the previous results obtained by other authors from the
analyses of less complete catalogs and maybe reconcile their apparent
discrepancy. However, the method applied here needs to be further checked,
since it produces odd fluctuations at each transition scale, which need to be
thoroughly explained.
