IN PURSUIT OF ELECTRONICS LITERATURE AND BRADFORD'S LAW OF SCATTERING & LEIMKUHLER MODEL: A STUDY BASED ON WEB OF SCIENCE DATABASE

Abstract

The application of Bradford's law of scattering to electronic publications is the subject of this research article. The data for the study came from the Web of Science core collection, which is free to the public. 741 journals' five-year data sets produced 10387 English-language publications relating to electronics themes in general and physics studies in particular over the study period (2016-2020). The theoretical components of Bradford's law, as well as the rank list of journals created from the database, were tested. The Publication of Instrumentation emerged as the most desired journal, with 641 articles. The Bradford Multiplier (k) was found to be 10.451 in the database, and it was determined to be genuine because the percentage error of the distribution is - 0.02658, which is extremely small. The Bradford law is also graphically tested by creating a graph, which shows that it supports all three criteria.

Keywords - Bradford‘s Law of Scattering, Citation Dispersion, Leimkuhler model, Rank list of Journals, Web of Science