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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Urbizagástegui Alvarado, Rubén
Formato: Online Artículo
Lenguaje:spa
eng
Publicado: Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información 2016
Materias:
Bradford’s law
Exponential growth
Bibliometrics
Infometrics
Scientometrics
Ley de Bradford
Crecimiento de la literatura
Bibliometría
Informetría
Cienciometría
Acceso en línea:http://rev-ib.unam.mx/ib/index.php/ib/article/view/54595
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibbai.2016.02.003
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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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