A relationship between two forms of Bradford's law

John J. Hubert

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1978, vol. 29, issue 3, 159-161

Abstract: If g(x) is the number of journals having x references, we speak of a size‐frequency relationship. If f(r) is the number of references in a journal of rank r, we speak of a rank‐frequency relationship. In the former we can estimate the number of journals, given the number of references; in the latter we can estimate the number of references given the rank of the journal. In this paper we prove a statistical relationship which links these two types of productivity distributions.

Date: 1978
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