Growth of Literature on Bradford’s Law
This paper analyzes the literature produced on Bradford’s Law from 1934 to June 2012. The study compiled 936 documents produced by 1,123 authors, working in sixteen languages to communicate the results of their research, with English the leading language, followed by Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese....
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Investigación Bibliotecológica: Archivonomía, Bibliotecología e Información |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/54595 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://rev-ib.unam.mx/ib/index.php/ib/article/view/54595 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Bradford’s law Exponential growth Bibliometrics Infometrics Scientometrics Ley de Bradford Crecimiento de la literatura Bibliometría Informetría Cienciometría |
| Sumario: | This paper analyzes the literature produced on Bradford’s Law from 1934 to June 2012. The study compiled 936 documents produced by 1,123 authors, working in sixteen languages to communicate the results of their research, with English the leading language, followed by Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese. The study reveals the fifteen most productive authors, all of which work in English in both academic journals and conference settings. This literature is growing exponentially (R2 =0.974), at a rate of 5.4% per year and doubling in size every 13.2 years. |
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