Samuel C. Bradford Explained
| Samuel Clement Bradford |
| Birth Date: | 10 January 1878 |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Death Place: | United Kingdom |
| Field: | Mathematics |
| Known For: | The Bradford's law |
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]
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.
Notes and References
- Pledge . H. T. . 1948 . Dr. S. C. Bradford . Nature . en . 162 . 4128 . 917–918 . 10.1038/162917b0 . 1476-4687. free . 1948Natur.162..917P .
- 1985 . Sources of information on specific subjects 1934 . Journal of Information Science . en . 10 . 4 . 176–180 . 10.1177/016555158501000407 . 220492544 . 0165-5515.
- Brookes . B. C. . 1969 . Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science . Nature . en . 224 . 5223 . 953–956 . 10.1038/224953a0 . 4902657 . 1969Natur.224..953B . 4186617 . 1476-4687.
- BRADFORD . S.C. . 1977 . Recollections of a colleague whose memory may be at fault . Journal of Documentation . 33 . 3 . 173–179 . 10.1108/eb026640 . 0022-0418.
