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Bradford's law and libraries: present applications—potential promise

Aslib Proceedings, 1979
Bradford's Law is presented as an observation made from the outcome of searching, rather than a mathematical development. The organization and presentation of search data is explained. Potential applications of Bradford's Law are discussed. New findings are presented which show the relationship described by Bradford's Law to be fundamentally important ...
M. Carl Drott, Jacqueline C. Mancall, Belver C. Griffith   +2 more
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Bradford's Law of Bibliography of Science: an Interpretation

Nature, 1970
THE distribution of scientific articles in journals is known to conform closely to Bradford's law. If the journals are divided into groups, each containing the same number of articles on a given subject, then the number of journals in the succeeding groups form a geometrical progression1.
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CONSEQUENCES OF LOTKA'S LAW FOR THE LAW OF BRADFORD

Journal of Documentation, 1985
In this paper we start from the well‐known fact that from the law of ...
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Bradford’s Law and the Nigerian Entomological Literature

International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 1984
—Journal citations in Bibliography of entomological research in Nigeria: 1900–1973 were subjected to Bradford analysis with the view of evaluating the completeness of the bibliography and determining the core journals and core authors. As to the completeness of the bibliography, it was inferred that the bibliography is 93% complete in terms of journals
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THE APPLICATION OF BRADFORD'S LAW TO MONOGRAPHS

Journal of Documentation, 1975
This paper presents an analysis of a sample of the monographs listed in the National Library of Medicine's Current Catalog under subject headings in the cardiovascular diseases category. The sample was composed of 326 publishers and 770 monographs. The sample of monographic literature used in this study conforms to Bradford's law and demonstrates that ...
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Matrimonial (Socio-Economic) Choice and Bradford's Law: A Study

Library Herald, 2016
Marriage acts as foundation of society through social and legal union of men and women. In social marriage socioeconomic choice plays a pivotal role. Among many other sources of disseminating information about marriage matrimonial advertisements in newspapers serves as information sharing communication process in social marriage.
Partha Pratim Ray, B K Sen
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Bradford’s Law and the Literature of Agriculture

International Library Review, 1973
(1973). Bradford’s Law and the Literature of Agriculture. International Library Review: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 341-350.
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Zipf’s and Bradford’s laws and universal models

Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics, 2010
Zipf’s and Bradford’s laws are empirical laws that were derived by the processing and analysis of so-called rank distributions. In this paper, they are treated as special cases of generalized (universal) continuous distributions that can accurately describe a wide variety of statistical distributions, including rank.
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On the naranan interpretation of Bradford's law

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1976
AbstractThe Naranan interpretation of the original form of Bradford's Law does not follow from a stochastic argument based on his assumptions.
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Bradford's Law in the Context of Information Provision

Scientometrics, 2000
The aim of the study is to study empirical use of Bradford's law for decisions concerning information systems in problem based fields, were journals from different disciplines cover relevant information. Results of comparison of the cores in different fields can be used as a base for tailoring an information system.
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