Samuel Clement Bradford

Samuel Clement Bradford (10 Jan 1878 inward London – xiii Nov 1948) was a British mathematician, librarian as well as documentalist at the Science Museum inward London. The "Law of scattering" or popularly known every bit Bradford's constabulary is a blueprint origin described yesteryear Samuel C. Bradford inward 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a search for references inward scientific discipline journals. One formulation is that if journals inward a plain are sorted yesteryear publish of articles into 3 groups, each alongside almost one-third of all articles, thus the publish of journals inward each grouping volition live on proportional to 1:n:n².
Popular Books of Samuel Clement Bradford includes - Sources of Information on Specific Subjects (1934); Documentation, 1948.
Buat lebih berguna, kongsi:

0 Response to "Samuel Clement Bradford"

Post a Comment

close