MODELLING THE BRADFORD PHENOMENON
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Documentation
- Vol. 44 (1) , 1-18
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026816
Abstract
A probabilistic mechanism is proposed to describe various forms of the Bradford phenomenon reported in bibliometric research. This leads to a stochastic process termed the Waring process, a special case of which seems to conform with the general features of ‘Bradford's Law’. The presence of a time parameter in the model emphasises that we are considering dynamic systems and allows the possibility of predictions being made.Keywords
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