IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jamest/v48y1997i9p833-842.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Bradford's distribution: From the classical bibliometric “law” to the more general stochastic models

Author

Listed:
  • Vesna Oluić‐Vuković

Abstract

The significant qualitative shift from the conventional conceptual framework within which the Bradford distribution has usually been considered begins by attempting to bring it to a par with some well‐known distributions and laws within and outside bibliometrics. This article outlines some of the important tendencies that helped this development, focusing on those oriented toward more fundamental problems such as the implementation of general models that can explain the process by which the Bradford and the related distributions are generated. Shifting of the focus and scope to these issues represents a strong current tendency, though some of the basic assumptions regarding this had been advanced about 50 years ago. The reasons for their slow implementation in the research concepts are also discussed. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Suggested Citation

  • Vesna Oluić‐Vuković, 1997. "Bradford's distribution: From the classical bibliometric “law” to the more general stochastic models," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 48(9), pages 833-842, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:48:y:1997:i:9:p:833-842
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199709)48:93.0.CO;2-S
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199709)48:93.0.CO;2-S
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199709)48:93.0.CO;2-S?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:48:y:1997:i:9:p:833-842. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.asis.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.