AN EXACT FORMULATION OF BRADFORD'S LAW
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Documentation
- Vol. 36 (4) , 285-292
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026699
Abstract
An exact, discrete formulation of Bradford's law describing the distribution of articles in journals is derived by showing that Bradford's law is a special case of the Zipf‐Mandelbrot ‘rank frequency’ law. A relatively simple method is presented for fitting the model to empirical data and estimating the number of journals and articles in a subject collection. This method is demonstrated with an example application.Keywords
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