# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-c-bradford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:57:52.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-c-bradford"
name: "Samuel C. Bradford"
slug: "samuel-c-bradford"
description: "Samuel Clement Bradford was a British mathematician, librarian and documentalist at the Science Museum in London. He developed \"Bradford's law\" regarding differences in demand for scientific journals. This work influences bibliometrics and citation analysis of scientific publications. Bradford founded the British Society for International Bibliography (BSIB) and he was elected president of International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) in 1945. Bradford was a strong proponent of Universal Decimal Classification and of establishing abstracts of the scientific literature."
tagline: "British mathematician, librarian and documentalist (1878–1948)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1878-01-10"
deathDate: "1948-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Samuel C. Bradford"
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    title: "Samuel Bradford"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump