14 Sep 2004
CS 5244 – Bibliometrics
11
Bradford’s Law of Scattering
Journals
in a field can be divided into three parts,
each with about one-third of all articles:
1) a
core of a few journals,
2) a
second zone, with more journals, and
3) a
third zone, with the bulk of journals.
The number of journals is 1:n:n2
To think about: Why is this true?