Abstract
Core journals in ecology and biogeography were identified on the basis of Bradford's Law of Scattering, and their degree of overlap measured as percentage Similarity (PS). Areas of common interest between the two disciplines, as well as of uniqueness, were determined through bibliometric analysis of these core journals.
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Nordstrom, L.O. “Bradford's law” and the relationship between ecology and biogeography. Scientometrics 18, 193–203 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017761
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