PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VII)/ 4-17/2

AUTHOR: Dr. Asha Rani and Dr. Sanjeev Sharma

TITLE:APPLICATION OF BRADFORD’S LAW OF SCATTERING TO THE MANAGEMENT LITERATURE: A STUDY OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AT THE PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH

ABSTRACT: One of the subareas in bibliometric research concerns the application of most commonly used bibliometric laws such as Bradford’s Law of Scattering. The study is on ten years data of journals during 2000-2009 cited by the management scholars of Panjab University, Chandigarh was carried out to examine the applicability of Bradford’s Law of Scattering which consisted 215 journals containing 1546 citations collected from 27 doctoral dissertations. Distributions of the journals into three equally journals were made and the number of citations in each zone was then estimated. Applicability of the Bradford’s Law was then tested by applying the chi-square test to determine the goodness of fit between theoretical and experimental values.

KEYWORDS: Panjab University, Library, Department, Management, Doctoral dissertations, Citation Analysis, Bradford’s Law and Obsolescence/Half-life.

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