September 2016

Application of Bradford’s law in the field of botany literature from 2005 to 2014: A citation analysis

Bradford’s law is about scattering of literature in different information sources on a narrow subject. The present paper aims at analysing the research output performance of botany literature. Citation analysis of all the journal articles published in the Botany literature was covered in Web of Science (on-line version database) for the period of 2005-2014. A total of 12051 references were cited in 1183 articles...

Author(s): Neelamma G. and Gavisiddappa Anandhalli