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Evidence for the invalidity of the Bradford law for the single scientist

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On the basis of a previously proposed method using meta-informations accumulating during SDI from an international system of the INIS-type, it is investigated, how the scientific journal rank distribution of a research institution, for which the Bradford law is valid, is composed of the single scientists' journal distributions. In this transition from a macroscopic into a microscopic field of scientific communication evidence was found for the invalidity of the Bradford law for the journal rank distribution of a single scientist. This effect seems to confirm a fundamental qualitative difference of both fields of scientific communication.

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  1. Central Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, P.O.B. 19, 8051, Dresden, (GRD)

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Bonitz, M. Evidence for the invalidity of the Bradford law for the single scientist. Scientometrics 2, 203–214 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016698

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