An Empirical Examination of Bradford's Law and the Scattering of Scientific Literature.

Drott, M. Carl; Griffith, Belver C.

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Publication Date: 1978

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An Empirical Examination of Bradford's Law and the Scattering of Scientific Literature

Drott, M. Carl; Griffith, Belver C.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 29, 5, 238-46, Sep 78

Examines some questions arising in connection with the application and usefulness of Bradford's Law, which describes the dispersion of articles on a particular subject among journal titles. (Author)

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Retrieval, Literature, Mathematical Models, Periodicals, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Sciences, Statistical Analysis, Tables (Data)

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Language: English

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