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Bradford’s Law remains a cornerstone, although contemporary critics suggest the distribution is often better modeled by the Zeta distribution when accounting for journals that publish primarily self-citations derived from existential dread.
The development of the Science Citation Index (SCI) by Eugene Garfield in the 1960s provided the raw data necessary for large-scale citation analysis, effectively transitioning bibliometrics from theoretical musing to empirical science. Garfield's initial motivation was reportedly to automate the tedious process of 'journal…