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Bradford's law

Known as: Bradford (disambiguation), Bradford law 
Bradford's law is a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of searching for… 
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2013
2013
Relevance distributions across Bradford Zones: Can Bradfordizing improve search?
The purpose of this paper is to describe the evaluation of the effectiveness of the bibliometric technique Bradfordizing in an… 
2009
2009
Coslick Heads KB Weekend
Last Tuesday. .May 2nd, the Ties/en award in chemistry was presented to P.radfurd Mundy 'HI A coffee hour was held for cheinislry… 
1998
1998
Informetrics on accidents and trauma
MEDLINE database has been analysed for 1995-97 on index Accidents and Trauma. Publications output has been classified year-wise… 
1991
1991
Aplicação da lei de Bradford à literatura técnica sobre ferrovia: análise de periódicos e avaliação da base de dados da Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A.
A lei de Bradford foi aplicada a fonte secundaria, produto da base de dados da Rede Ferroviaria Federal S.A. Os periodicos… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
Indexação automática e manual: revisão de literatura
Abordam-se as diversas pesquisas nacionais e estrangeiras que avaliam a qualidade da indexacao manual e automatica, em relacao as… 
1984
1984
On the Unity of Bradford's Law
It is shown that there is no ambiguity in Bradford's theory of distribution. Starting with the two basic postulates laid down by… 
1984
1984
Towards informetrics: Haitun, Laplace, Zipf, Bradford and the Alvey Programme
Haitun has recently shown that empirical distributions are of two types—‘Gaussian’ and ‘Zipfian’—characterized by the presence or… 
1981
1981
A Critical Commentary on Leimkuhler's 'exact' formulation of the Bradford Law
It is argued that the powerful techniques of OR operate on only a small fraction of the statistical information that the social… 
1976
1976
The yield formula and bradford's law
The relation between a number of n top producing journals and their cumulative yield R(n)—articles, loans—is expressed by a yield… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
THE AMBIGUITY OF BRADFORD'S LAW
Recent discussion of Bradford's law of scatter has been founded on two formulations that are not mathematically equivalent. A… 
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