Bradford's distribution: From the classical bibliometric ?law? to the more general stochastic models
✍ Scribed by Olui?-Vukovi?, Vesna
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
tions of sources and their activities recorded in some The significant qualitative shift from the conventional conceptual framework within which the Bradford districommon manner, produce highly skewed distributions bution has usually been considered begins by attempting where most of the items are concentrated in a small to bring it to a par with some well-known distributions population of sources, while the remaining items are and laws within and outside bibliometrics. This article spread out over the rest of the population; outlines some of the important tendencies that helped j Theoretical aspect, as reflecting along with Lotka's disthis development, focusing on those oriented toward tribution, the observable and quantifiable manifestamore fundamental problems such as the implementation tions of the principles underlying communication in of general models that can explain the process by which science, i.e., the processes of creation, transmission, the Bradford and the related distributions are generated. and use of knowledge; Shifting of the focus and scope to these issues reprej Methodological aspect, as putting forward the new persents a strong current tendency, though some of the basic assumptions regarding this had been advanced
spectives for the analysis of quantitative aspects of sciabout 50 years ago. The reasons for their slow impleence communication; and mentation in the research concepts are also discussed.
j Practical aspect, as providing the important means for the library and information system management, information storage, dissemination, and retrieval.