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Towards a multi-disciplinary Bradford law

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Bradford's law, perhaps the most well known of the Informetric regularities, analyzes the scattering of articles in a single discipline over journals. Yet journals are multi-disciplinary entities. This paper discusses the implications for Bradford's law of the multi-disciplinary character of journals, and defines a simple model that indicates the evolution of journals as a competition among subjects for space.

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  1. Center for Information and Language Studies, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57 Street, 60637, Chicago, IL, (USA)

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The research reported in this paper was carried out while the author was a Fullbright fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore, India. The author gratefully acknowledges this support.

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Bookstein, A. Towards a multi-disciplinary Bradford law. Scientometrics 30, 353–361 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017233

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