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A study of the five years data of journals cited by the physicists at the University of Kerala (UoK), India has been carried out to examine the applicability of Bradford’s law of scattering on a sample of 303 journals containing 2655 citations collected from 12 doctoral theses during the period 2004-08. Ranked list of journals are prepared, and the most preferred journal is Journal of Geophysical Research with the highest of 345 (12.97%) citations. The paper provides summary and review of the scholarly contribution on the various facets of Bradford’s law. In addition to the theoretical aspects of the law, the review covers papers dealing with the application of the law in the various subject fields. Applicability of Bradford’s law on various methods has been tested. The journal distribution pattern of the doctoral theses does not confirm the Bradford’s distribution pattern. The Bradford multipliers are calculated, and the law was found to be applicable with the value of k as 2.66. The distribution of the journals in three zones done and the number of references in each zone is then calculated. The applicability of Leim-kuhler model is also tested with the present data. The Bradford’s law of scattering doesn’t follow the journal distribution pattern.
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