Application of Bradford's Law of Scattering to LIS doctoral theses: Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar, India

This paper examines the pattern of citations by the researchers of Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar, applying Bradford's Law of Scattering. The study covers 255 periodicals with 2953 citations collected from 35 doctoral theses till the year 2010. The time span 1986–1995 was the most productive years of cited periodicals. Contributions of journals are from USA, and the most cited journal is IASLIC Bulletin. Applying the Bradford Law of distribution to find out the core journals in the field of Library and information science. The journal distribution pattern of the LIS doctoral theses does not fit the graphical Bradford's distribution pattern. The distribution of journals was in three zones and the number of references in each zone calculated as 3: 26: 226.The value of Bradford multiplier is 8.55. The applicability of Leimkuhler model was also tested.. The x² value was 0.419, which is less than the 219.025 the table chi-square value at 5% significance level.