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Bradford's law of scattering: a standalone construct

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Bibliometrics

the regularity that articles on a subject are concentrated in a few core journals, with equal shares spread over geometrically more journals.

In bibliometrics, Bradford's law of scattering refers to the regularity that articles on a subject are concentrated in a few core journals, with equal shares spread over geometrically more journals. This meaning comes from Bradford (1985) in Journal of Information Science.[1]

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References

  1. Bradford, S. C. (1985). Sources of information on specific subjects (reprint of the 1934 article). Journal of Information Science, 10(4), 176-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555158501000407

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