Bradford's Law: Identification of the Core Journals in the Field of Indian Chemical Science Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaman Sab M ◽  
P. Dharani Kumar ◽  
B. S. Biradar
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Science ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bradford’S Law

Scattering of journals cited in legal theses and dissertations

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110367
Author(s):  
Siviwe Bangani ◽  
Michiel Moll
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bradford’S Law ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

The study employed bibliometrics methods to analyse the scattering of 596 journals cited in legal master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in three South African law schools from 2014 to 2018. In addition, the study included an analysis of the extent of citation of different sources and examined the effect of use of non-legal journals by law students. It was found that students used 449.2 documents on average in writing a doctoral dissertation and 110.9 references per master’s thesis. Journals received more citations than any other document formats although 16 master’s theses were completed without citing a single journal. Generally, the journals cited in legal theses and dissertations conform to Bradford’s Law but they differ in their level of conformity by law school. There was a high degree of overlaps between Zone 1 journals in the three law schools. All journals in the core lists were available in all the law schools which was attributed to the strength of collections in these schools. The results support the application of bibliometric analyses to legal master’s theses and doctoral dissertations to make collection development decisions. In making those decisions, however, law librarians would have to look beyond the Zone 1 journals of their own institution for wider access. These results also serve as a caution to law librarians to look beyond the traditional law journals in de/selecting journals, as some of the non-legal journals in this study made it to the core list of cited periodicals. Furthermore, this study points to the strength of library collections in the top law school libraries in the country.

scholarly journals A Defence of Manipulationist Noncausal Explanation: The Case for Intervention Liberalism

Erkenntnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Emmerson
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Causal Explanation ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mechanistic Constitution ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Specific Position

AbstractRecent years have seen growing interest in modifying interventionist accounts of causal explanation in order to characterise noncausal explanation. However, one surprising element of such accounts is that they have typically jettisoned the core feature of interventionism: interventions. Indeed, the prevailing opinion within the philosophy of science literature suggests that interventions exclusively demarcate causal relationships. This position is so prevalent that, until now, no one has even thought to name it. We call it “intervention puritanism”. In this paper, we mount the first sustained defence of the idea that there are distinctively noncausal explanations which can be characterized in terms of possible interventions; and thus, argue that I-puritanism is false. We call the resultant position “intervention liberalism” (I-liberalism, for short). While many have followed Woodward (Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003) in committing to I-pluralism, we trace support for I-liberalism back to the work of Kim (in: Kim (ed) Supervenience and mind, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974/1993). Furthermore, we analyse two recent sources of scepticism regarding I-liberalism: debate surrounding mechanistic constitution; and attempts to provide a monistic account of explanation. We show that neither literature provides compelling reasons for adopting I-puritanism. Finally, we present a novel taxonomy of available positions upon the role of possible interventions in explanation: weak causal imperialism; strong causal imperialism; monist intervention puritanism; pluralist intervention puritanism; monist intervention liberalism; and finally, the specific position defended in this paper, pluralist intervention liberalism.

scholarly journals Mapping the literature of health care management: an update

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber T. Burtis ◽  
Susan M. Howell ◽  
Mary K. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Health Care Management ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bradford’S Law ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Highly Cited

Objective: This study aims to identify the core journals cited in the health care management literature and to determine their coverage in the foremost bibliographic databases used by the discipline.Methods: Using the methodology outlined by the Medical Library Association’s Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section (NAHRS) protocol for “Mapping the Literature of Nursing and Allied Health Professions,” this study updates an earlier study published in 2007. Cited references from articles published in a three-year range (2016–2018) were collected from five health care management journals. Using Bradford’s Law of Scattering, cited journal titles were tabulated and ranked according to the number of times cited. Eleven databases were used to determine coverage of the most highly cited journal titles for all source journals, as well as for a subset of practitioner-oriented journals.Results: The most highly cited sources were journals, followed by government documents, Internet resources, books, and miscellaneous resources. The databases with the most complete coverage of Zone 1 and 2 were Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and PubMed, while the worst performing databases were Health Business Elite, ABI/Inform, and Business Source Complete.Conclusions: The literature of health care management has expanded rapidly in the last decade, with cumulative citations increasing by 76.6% and the number of cited journal titles increasing by nearly 70% since the original study. Coverage of the core journals in popular databases remains high, although specialized health care management and business databases did not perform as well as general or biomedical databases. 

scholarly journals Democracy in the prison of political science

2020 ◽  
pp. 019251212093243
Author(s):  
Felipe Antunes de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Core ◽  
Individual Traits ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Societal Dynamics

After the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, a widespread perception emerged that the world was witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. Not surprisingly, said crisis is at the core of a new batch of political science literature. This review article takes stock of some key contributions to the literature, namely Albright (2018), Levitsky and Ziblatt (2018), Norris and Inglehart (2018), Runciman (2018a) and Eatwell and Goodwin (2018). My key argument is that the reviewed books are fundamentally limited by problematic ontological assumptions stemming from artificial disciplinary boundaries. Privileging either individual traits of authoritarian leaders or the very specific experience of the USA or the UK, they fail to capture varied, yet deeply interconnected international expressions of contemporary authoritarianism. Following Justin Rosenberg’s open invitation to place the concept of multiplicity at the centre of a renewed research agenda, I suggest that a more holistic take on the crisis of democracy requires a renewed attention to inter-societal dynamics.

Doctoral Theses in Environmental Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-33
Author(s):  
Koteppa Banateppanavar ◽  
B.S. Biradar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Science ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
Bradford’S Law ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
Number Of Citations

The result of this study is an original research work with application of Bradford's law and an obsolescence study of environmental science literature. The article represents the availability of information and information used by the researchers in the field of environmental science for their research work. The research design adopted was a descriptive study. Data was collected from 66 doctoral theses submitted to the Kuvempu University in the field of Environmental Science during 1998-2012 have been taken as the source of data for the present study; these doctoral theses generated 14,668 total citations. The study is based on the analysis of bibliographic references appended at the end of each chapter and footnotes, if any. Each thesis was manually examined and references appended at the end of each chapter were extracted. All the references were noted. Later, the data were fed into the computer using MS-Excel and separate sheets and columns were created to enter data. Finally, the data was transferred to SPSS software to generate the tables, graphs and results. The present article reveals that journals have the highest number of citations accounting to 72.25% of the total citations. The Journal of Hydrobiologia from the Netherlands occupies the first rank as the most preferred journal having been cited 546 (5.15%) times. Further, Bradford's law was applied and studied the obsolescence of journal literature. Finally half-life of journal citations was found 14 years old in the field of Environmental Science.

After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Arab State ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Impact

The uprisings which swept across the Arab world beginning in December 2010 pose a serious challenge to many of the core findings of the political science literature focused on the durability of the authoritarian Middle Eastern state. The impact of social media on contentious politics represents one of the many areas which will require significant new thinking. The dramatic change in the information environment over the last decade has changed individual competencies, the ability to organize for collective action, and the transmission of information from the local to the international level. It has also strengthened some of the core competencies of authoritarian states even as it has undermined others. The long term evolution of a new kind of public sphere may matter more than immediate political outcomes, however. Rigorous testing of competing hypotheses about the impact of the new social media will require not only conceptual development but also the use of new kinds of data analysis not traditionally adopted in Middle East area studies.

Using Bradford's law of scattering to identify the core journals of pediatric surgery

2018 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 90-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nidhi Desai ◽  
Laura Veras ◽  
Ankush Gosain
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Surgery ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bradford’S Law

Application of Bradford’s law of scattering and Leimkuhler model to information science literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-212
Author(s):  
Dhruba Jyoti Borgohain ◽  
Manoj Kumar Verma ◽  
Mohammad Nazim ◽  
Mayukh Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Bradford’S Law

A technique to identify core journals for neurosurgery using citation scatter analysis and the Bradford distribution across neurosurgery journals

2013 ◽  
Vol 119 (5) ◽  
pp. 1274-1287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkatesh S. Madhugiri ◽  
Sudheer Ambekar ◽  
Shane F. Strom ◽  
Anil Nanda
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bradford’S Law ◽  
Citation Ranking ◽  
Rank List ◽  
Bradford Distribution

Object The volume of scientific literature doubles approximately every 7 years. The coverage of this literature provided by online compendia is variable and incomplete. It would hence be useful to identify “core” journals in any field and validate whether the h index and impact factor truly identify the core journals in every subject. The core journals in every medical specialty would be those that provide a current and comprehensive coverage of the science in that specialty. Identifying these journals would make it possible for individual physicians to keep abreast of research and clinical progress. Methods The top 10 neurosurgical journals (on the basis of impact factor and h index) were selected. A database of all articles cited in the reference lists of papers published in issues of these journals published in the first quarter of 2012 was generated. The journals were ranked based on the number of papers cited from each. This citation rank list was compared with the h index and impact factor rank lists. The rank list was also examined to see if the concept of core journals could be validated for neurosurgical literature using Bradford's law. Results A total of 22,850 papers spread across 2522 journals were cited in neurosurgical literature over 3 months. Although the top 10 journals were the same, irrespective of ranking criterion (h index, impact factor, citation ranking), the 3 rank lists were not congruent. The top 25% of cited articles obeyed the Bradford distribution; beyond this, there was a zone of increased scatter. Six core journals were identified for neurosurgery. Conclusions The core journals for neurosurgery were identified to be Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Spine, Acta Neurochirurgica, Stroke, and Journal of Neurotrauma. A list of core journals could similarly be generated for every subject. This would facilitate a focused reading to keep abreast of current knowledge. Collated across specialties, these journals could depict the current status of medical science.

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