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Bradford's law

A pattern first recognised by SC Bradford in the 1930s that the most significant articles in any given field of investigation are found within a relatively small cluster of journal publications.
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The simple counting citation methods and Bradford's Law was applied to find out the core journals in the field of Economics.
There will undoubtedly be more than 7 journals, following Bradford's Law of Scattering (Figure 1).
Bradford's law firm also represented Zell's investment firm Equity Group Investments when it was subpoenaed in connection with the scandal.
In the course of his work, he investigated Bradford's Law, a hypothesis that a small group of core publications in science contributes a larger-than-expected proportion of high-impact articles in a given field.
In his search, he came across Bradford's Law. Samuel C.
Bradford's law well fitted in to the given data set for the present study.
The mapping protocol, amended in 2010 and again in 2014 to include examination of database coverage [1], continues to base analysis of dispersal of publications upon a formula called Bradford's Law of Scattering [8], with the stated purpose of (1) identifying core journals from a 3-year span, (2) determining bibliographic coverage, and (3) influencing database producers to improve access.
Hence this study focuses on identifying the core law journals by applying the Bradford's law of scattering in the disciplines of Law.
Bradford's Law of Scattering is a law of diminishing returns and scattering.
In this paper, an effort is made to disclose the research tendencies in Microbiology and to recognize the core journals in the subject by applying the Bradford's Law of Scattering.
In 1997, the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section (NAHRS) of the Medical Library Association (MLA) launched the "Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project." From its inception, the project has employed a common bibliometric methodology, based in part on Bradford's Law of Scattering [1], to analyze or "map" the bibliographic patterns at play in a variety of allied health disciplines, including occupational therapy, the discipline covered by the present study.
The Bradford's Law states that the number of periodicals in zones, the first zone and second zones will be 1: n: n2.
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