Samuel_C._Bradford

Samuel C. Bradford

Samuel C. Bradford

British mathematician, librarian, and documentalist

Samuel Clement Bradford (10 January 1878 in London – 13 November 1948)[1] was a British mathematician, librarian and documentalist at the Science Museum in London. He developed "Bradford's law" (or the "law of scattering") regarding differences in demand for scientific journals.[2][3] This work influences bibliometrics and citation analysis of scientific publications. Bradford founded the British Society for International Bibliography (BSIB) (est. 1927) and he was elected president of International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) in 1945. Bradford was a strong proponent of the UDC and of establishing abstracts of the scientific literature.[4]

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Bibliography

  • Bradford, S. C. (1934). Sources of information on specific subjects. Engineering, 26, p. 85–86.
  • Bradford, S. C. (1946). Romance of Roses. London: F. Muller.
  • Bradford, S. C. (1948). Documentation. London: Crosby Lockwood.
  • Bradford, S. C. (1953). Documentation. 2nd ed. With an introd. by Jesse H. Shera and Margaret E. Egan. London: Crosby Lockwood.

References

  1. [1]
    Pledge, H. T. (1948). "Dr. S. C. Bradford". Nature. 162 (4128): 917–918. Bibcode:1948Natur.162..917P. doi:10.1038/162917b0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  2. [2]
    "Sources of information on specific subjects 1934". Journal of Information Science. 10 (4): 176–180. 1985. doi:10.1177/016555158501000407. ISSN 0165-5515. S2CID 220492544.
  3. [3]
    Brookes, B. C. (1969). "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science". Nature. 224 (5223): 953–956. Bibcode:1969Natur.224..953B. doi:10.1038/224953a0. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 4902657. S2CID 4186617.
  4. [4]
    BRADFORD, S.C. (1977). "Recollections of a colleague whose memory may be at fault". Journal of Documentation. 33 (3): 173–179. doi:10.1108/eb026640. ISSN 0022-0418.


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